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Re: dropdown requirements?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 5, 2018 9:26PM

I agree with you. What your page is doing is clearly a change of context as defined at https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#context-changedef

It is irrelevant that it is possible to open the combobox list and navigate through it without triggering the event handler. This is not usual user behaviour, and in our user testing I have almost never seen anyone do it - only the most experienced users seem to know about this way of using a combobox.

You could achieve compliance by adding text that warns of this behaviour. It's nowhere near as good as actually fixing the issue but it may be all you can get your developers to do, and it would technically be compliant.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd