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Re: Feedback wanted on accessibility of a "pillbox" widget rewrite (Select2)

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Sep 23, 2018 1:26PM

How is this project going? Have you experienced any issues with Firefox
versions on Windows?

Thanks,

Jonathan


On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:00 PM Igor Vaynberg < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I realized I broke the fiddle earlier today, here is a stable version [1]
>
> [1] https://jsfiddle.net/qn4x1L93/15/ <https://jsfiddle.net/qn4x1L93/15/>
>
> -Igor
>
> > On Aug 28, 2018, at 2:43 PM, Igor Vaynberg < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I have recently started working on rewrite of Select2 [1][2] which
> has been mentioned on this list a couple of times. I am trying to make it
> ADA compliant. I have a prototype of the multi-select mode of the widget
> and would like to gather some feedback from the community before I head too
> far down a wrong direction. You can see it in action here: [3].
> >
> > My plan so far has been to:
> > * Treat the widget as three individual widgets: a listbox for added
> values, a button to clear selected added values from aforementioned
> listbox, and a combobox to add new values.
> > * Announce combo box states that are not represented by items of the
> combo box such as "no results" and "enter 2 more characters to begin
> search" via live regions
> > * Keyboard navigation from listbox and combobox aria patterns
> >
> > I am a newbie to ADA and ARIA world and as such looking for feedback
> from people with more experience.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Igor
> >
> > [1] https://select2.org
> > [2] https://github.com/select2/select2
> > [3] https://jsfiddle.net/qn4x1L93/12/
> >
>
> > > > >