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Re: JAWS and disabled combobox options

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Jan 18, 2017 11:33AM

in my testing in windows (IE, FF, and chrome) first letter navigation
worked in a select with optgroup.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> > Looks like the developer should have used optgroup instead of disabled
> options. The States are groups, but not values themselves.
>
> Except use of optgroup doesn't allow for keyboard navigation using first
> letter of the item in the optgroup. And optgroup isn't well supported by
> assistive technology in my experience.
>
> Jonathan
>
>