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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 1, 2019 8:19AM

The list of options in native comboboxes can be opened by pressing Alt+DownArrow. You can then use the arrow keys to scroll through the options without selecting them. This has been standard behaviour for at least 20 years, if not forever.

However, in the 15 years we have been doing user testing I have almost never seen anyone do this, so I expect the level of awareness is pretty low even among people who use keyboard navigation all the time.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd