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Re: How useful is the datalist element?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 28, 2017 10:31AM

How are you using the <datalist> element?
Are you using it with the list attribute of the <input> element?


I think it is going to be highly useful but, just like with many HTML5
elements and attributes, the browser and assistive technology support
is not quite there yet.
It is a frustrating journey, but if we can keep filing bugs and have
this fixed, the payoff in terms of accessibility of complex components
is going to be enormous.


On 5/26/17, Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> This is very disappointing to hear. Thanks for the response.
>
> I don't know enough about the accessibility APIs to know what kind of bug to
> file. I'm assuming the browser is sending the wrong information or too much
> information or something, but is there some way to see exactly what NVDA is
> being told by the browser? And I'm not sure what the expected behavior
> would even be. It seems that the concept of a "combo box" hasn't been
> filled in yet by the w3c "aria practices" authors:
> https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/issues/31.
>
>