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Re: JAWS and disabled combobox options

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Jan 11, 2017 1:38AM

Hi,
Actually this is an extremely bad practice and breaks not only screen reader accessibility but also keyboard accessibility, making it impossible to use single or multiple letter skipping between key sections within the select within various browsers.

This was so problematic for me at times that I created the following bookmarklet to hack this out of any web page where this was done.
http://whatsock.com/training/matrices/remove_option_disabled.htm

I sincerely suggest that nobody ever do this.



Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
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415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com