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From: _mallory
Date: Jan 18, 2017 5:36AM

Looks like the developer should have used optgroup instead of
disabled options. The States are groups, but not values
themselves.

cheers,
_mallory

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 08:09:10AM -0600, JP Jamous wrote:
> Thank you Bryan. That makes more sense to me now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 12:06 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS and disabled combobox options
>
> No problem, happy to help. :) One note for others, the bookmarklet was simply a personal utility I created to work around some accessibility issues I was encountering, but this should not ever be part of any development strategy for making something like this accessible.
>
> To answer a prior question from JP Jamous, the scenario described has only one select element.
>
> E.G Example syntax:
>
> <select title="Choose a County" >
> <option >Arizona</option>
> <optgroup>
> <option> County Name One </option>
> <option> County Name Two </option>
> </optgroup>
> <option >California</option>
> <optgroup>
> <option> County Name One </option>
> <option> County Name Two </option>
> </optgroup>
> </select>
>
> You can quickly jump to California by typing "cal".
>
> However if you try the following instead, this is impossible.
>
>
> <select title="Choose a County" >
> <option disabled >Arizona</option>
> <optgroup>
> <option> County Name One </option>
> <option> County Name Two </option>
> </optgroup>
> <option disabled >California</option>
> <optgroup>
> <option> County Name One </option>
> <option> County Name Two </option>
> </optgroup>
> </select>
>
> This is why this practice should never be done.
>
> Instead, client side scripting should be used to check the value of such options and prevent submission if the intended value is not selected.
>
>
>
> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> SSB BART Group, Inc.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com