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Re: Combo Box Displays incomplete items - content or accessibility issue?

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Nov 27, 2017 12:07PM

In my testing with Chrome Jaws/NVDA there is no auditory truncation of
content in the dropdowns. But everything is repeated twice (e.g. Access and
Wait times, Access and wait times)
Visually there is truncation of content in the display. If the user tabs to
the control and uses the down arrrow to make a selection the text is
truncated within the displayed box. if the user clicks on the dropdown, it
opens and all the text is there and word wrapped (nice). However, I could
not find a keyboard mechanism (standard to open comboboxes on windows is
alt-down-arrow) to open the combobox which is a failure of 2.1.1.
Surprisingly, ESC would close a combobox that was opened with the mouse
(nice), tho there was no screenreader announcement that the combobox
collapsed.
as the full content is available on dropdown opening, I would not count
that as an error. The non-functionality by keyboard - not be able to open
the combobox to see the full content is an error.

Jim
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Sarah Jevnikar < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Makes sense - thank you so much for your thoughts.
> Sarah
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> Sarah Jevnikar
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