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Re: Selects with drop downs

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 14, 2018 2:24PM

This is where I think we as a community sometimes back off too quick.
Instead of using perfectly semantic correct HML and make it the
problem of the browser and assistive technology vendors to translate
it into usable and accessible experience, (that is their job) we back
of and do not use those patterns, opting instead for resource
intensive custom solutions that cannot be shared.

This is HTML5, it has been in the spec for years, browsers should support that.

WCAG gives an opt out if we are using native browser settings, e.g.
for keybord focus (WCAG 2.4.7).
Shouldn't the same apply to this scenario?


On 3/14/18, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Browser support for <datalist> is very poor, which is a shame because it
> does exactly what I need in our CRM system.
>
> The W3Schools website says that Safari does not support it at all. It works
> in Chrome but it's got a nasty behaviour insofar as the list does not fully
> repopulate if you type some characters and then delete them all. You have to
> either close the dropdown and re-open it, or click in the textbox.
>
> Steve
>
>