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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Mar 5, 2018 9:02PM

Hi,

I have a scenario in one of the web pages where on hitting up/ down arrow
keys in a combobox the page immediately reloads to updated content moving
the focus away from the combobox. So this doesn't let users to traverse
dropdown options at a time as page reloads each time users hits up or down
arrow. But this doesn't happen when I navigate through the combobox options
by expanding it with Alt+ down arrow where users need to hit enter key in
order to invoke the focused option. But still I am suggesting a button
beside the combobox to invoke changes but as the behavior is not so hurting
when doing the action expanding the combobox the dev's are not interested
in providing a button and saying this bug as by design.
I feel this behavior violates WCAG 3.2.2.
Any thoughts on this will be really helpful and I also can provide this
thread as reference for them. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Venkatesh