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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> >
wrote:

> Makes sense - thank you so much for your thoughts.
> Sarah
>
>
> Sarah Jevnikar
>
> Accessibility Consultant
>
> Digital Echidna
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO
> Sent: November 16, 2017 3:43 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Combo Box Displays incomplete items - content or
> accessibility issue?
>
> I'm not aware of a Success Criteria that covers this situation, but I
> think it clearly violates WCAG 2.0 Principles 1 and 3, and Guidelines 1.3,
> 1.4, and 3.1. The Success Criteria, as good as they are, will shift over
> time with technology. The Principles and Guidelines are more durable,
> though more abstract.
>
> Principle 1 "Perceivable - Information and user interface components must
> be presentable to users in ways they can perceive,"
>
> Guideline 1.3 "Adaptable: Create content that can be presented in
> different ways (for example simpler layout) without losing information or
> structure"
>
> Guideline 1.4 "Distinguishable: Make it easier for users to see and hear
> content including separating foreground from background"
>
> Principle 3 "Understandable - Information and the operation of user
> interface must be understandable"
>
> Guideline 3.1 "Readable: Make text content readable and understandable"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Sarah Jevnikar
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:29 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] Combo Box Displays incomplete items - content or
> accessibility issue?
>
> Hi again all,
> I've been presented with a combo box which repeats or truncates items
> with both JAWS and NVDA using IE and Chrome (though not when using
> Firefox). This has been documented as a Drupal plugin (called Dropkick)
> problem. It would appear we are too far along in the development process to
> retrofit this for accessibility.
>
> My concern right now lies elsewhere. I'm told that the text is visually
> cut off, which has been flagged as an accessibility issue. Is this an issue
> of accessibility or content? It's obviously not ideal that text is
> shortened, but does it violate WCAG? I'm told by sighted colleagues that
> it's not an uncommon occurrence on the web but don't like the thought of it.
>
> The page is below:
> https://www.cihi.ca/en/news-events-and-education/news
> where filters are presented as dropdown lists.
> Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> Thank you very much,
> Sarah
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Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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