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Re: Alt+Down arrow in combo box well known?

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From: Beranek, Nicholas
Date: Apr 6, 2017 4:49PM

It's also a violation of SC 3.2.2 On Input to change context upon selecting an option.

Nick



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> On Apr 6, 2017, at 6:34 PM, Bossley, Peter A. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I would say that you can't rely on them knowing about expanding select boxes. Also, Changing something based on someone arrowing through a select list is a bad idea for a few reasons, but mostly because screen reader users might not be aware of the change. Worse yet is if the change involves moving focus or loading a new page, that'll create issues for both screen reader and keyboard users.
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