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Re: Combobox: what should the Esc key do?

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Apr 13, 2018 2:49AM

Sure enough the Esc key works as expected in native HTML5 comboboxes,
but it doesn't seem to work in composite ARIA-enabled widgets. I
wonder if there's some way to force the ESC key to be passed to the
browser first before it's grabbed by the AT? I can build a hack where
the container has a role of "application" until the Esc key is
pressed, but in that scenario JAWS says "application" a lot when the
user interacts with the widget.

I'd much rather use a native implementation, but it's just not
possible to get enough info from it to let users know how many results
are available as they type. Very frustrating.

On 11/04/2018, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Jaws, passes the escape key through. AS it closes the dropdown after being
> pressed. Need to check NVDA as I cannot recall how it behaves.
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