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Re: JAWS and disabled combobox options

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From: Paul Collins
Date: Jan 11, 2017 9:08PM

Hi everyone, thanks for your replies, I really appreciate your input.

Bryan, your bookmarklet is a great idea, I've saved it. The decision to
disable options in a select box was not mine, it was handed to me - I'm
working on a large scale enterprise app and as you can imagine, in these
situations accessibility is often a series of compromises between UX,
Design, Product Owners, Developers, etc to work out the best solution.

However, based on everyone's feedback, I've managed to come up with a
better solution that seems to satisfy all the stakeholders involved :)

The drop down contained a list of accounts. Some were disabled
occasionally, but we wanted to communicate which ones. I've now removed all
disabled accounts from the drop down and listed them in a descriptive
warning message, associated with the selectbox using aria-describedby.

Hope that makes sense. Thanks for your input everyone, it made me rethink
the design and come up with a better solution.

All the best,
Paul


On 12 January 2017 at 05:55, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Bryan,
> Do you have a page that I can check out? I am not following you, because
> from your description it sounded like both the States and Counties are
> loading in the same dropdown box, which cannot be correct.
>
> I know I am losing you somewhere. I do understand though that when one
> country is selected the state item should become disabled.
>
> Are the counties in a different dropdown or are they check boxes or radio
> buttons? Just trying to map out the layout in my head.
>
>