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Re: JAWS and disabled combobox options

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 11, 2017 4:51AM

If you are implementing the combobox you could use
aria-disabled="true" to indicate that it the option is disabled (yet
it remains focusable). You'd have to use visual styling to indicate
same.



On 1/11/17, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com
>
>