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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.
>
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>
> Interesting question - coincidentally, today someone proposed a different
> improvement by allowing grouping:
> https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/932
>
> My sense is that implementation is still immature. And not very good.
> File bugs on browsers...
>
> cheers
>
> On 27/05/17 00:20, Jeremy Echols wrote:
>> It seems like being native HTML, it would be pretty accessible, but in my
>> testing with Firefox and NVDA, it seems like it's... just painful to use.
>> For instance, NVDA doesn't notify me when typeahead options show up, but
>> worse, when I use the down-arrow to start selecting items, it re-reads the
>> input label and aria-describedby text... on every single down-arrow
>> selection.
>>
>> Are there JavaScript typeaheads which are better? Is support for datalist
>> just at such a bad point that it shouldn't be used?
>> >> >> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> >
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