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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Mar 1, 2019 8:38AM

Thanks Steve and Glen.

Sometimes Alt+DownArrow opens the list, sometimes Space or Enter.
Would it be reasonable for keyboard users to know they'd need to press
an extra key for the change to occur? From the small amount of user
testing I've done, users tend not to be aware of this.

But if I provide an alternative mechanism (arrow buttons to the left
and right of the list), perhaps this is enough.

Cheers, Isabel

On 01/03/2019, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I do this all the time (alt+down), but strangely enough I think the
> behavior changed in firefox recently. Now I have to press space on the
> <select> to get the dropdown list to appear. Alt+down still works in
> chrome and ie.
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:19 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> > > > >