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Re: Types of Drop down and VoiceOver on a MAC

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From: allyssa jessicon
Date: Feb 17, 2022 7:22AM

Hey Vaibhav.

Thanks. Much appreciated!


On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 1:29 PM Vaibhav Saraf < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi Allyssa,
>
> I understand that one of your requirement is regarding an accessible
> autocomplete dropdown. I have incorporated the one discussed in the below
> article and so far it has worked with all of the assistive technologies I
> got the users on, including JAWS, NVDA, VO, Dragon, etc.
>
> https://adamsilver.io/blog/building-an-accessible-autocomplete-control/
>
> Thanks,
> Vaibhav
>
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> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 21:12, allyssa jessicon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I wonder if there is an accessible dropdown which works for both Windows
> > screen readers (JAWS, NVDA) and VoiceOver on a MAC. All of the dropdown,
> > whether it is select only, with autocomplete etc. which I get my hands on
> > to is not properly working with VoiceOver where it works just fine for
> JAWS
> > and NVDA. An example which I can give would be, when expanding a dropdown
> > list items VoiceOver announces nothing, and when I interact with the list
> > items with QuickNav on then the focus goes out of the dropdown list.
> > Anybody has any thoughts on this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Allyssa.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >