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Re: JAWS and disabled combobox options
From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 20, 2017 8:16PM
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> When I open the select with ALT + ARROW DOWN (or space bar), I am able to type keys to jump straight to options despite the presence of optgroup. So it
Detlev, the issue is that you can't press the letter of the optgroup name to jump to that group. So there is no way to quickly navigate between groups.
Separately, in my experience with IE the optgroup names are not announced with screen readers. I believe the optgroup names are announced in Firefox.
Jonathan
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