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Re: <select multiple> and WCAG compliance

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From: Roel Van Gils
Date: Oct 24, 2017 8:04AM

Thanks all. Very informative.

I knew about multi-select in Firefox, but Shift+F8 in IE / Edge was completely new to me.

If Chrome and Safari are indeed the only browsers there are lacking support, I'd like to file a bug report / feature request.

(I think it might even be possible to mimic the Firefox behaviour in other browsers using scripting.)

Roel

> On 24 Oct 2017, at 15:50, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I echo Jonathan's experience.
> Also hold the control key as one goes up and down with arrow keys and
> use space to select/deselect.
> Thanks,
> Sailesh
>
>
> On 10/24/17, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>> I have been able to select non-contiguous options using Firefox but I have
>>> not been able to do so using Chrome or Internet Explorer. Has anyone been
>>> able to do so in either of those browsers?
>>
>> I've been using shift+f8 for multiselect in IE since 1999. It's a
>> well-documented keystrokes to select non-contiguous items.
>>
>> Jonathan
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