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Re: enter key to check radio button?

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From: Vaibhav Saraf
Date: Apr 21, 2022 2:50PM

Hi David,

I can tell from my experience both as a sighted user and later as a screen
reader user that Submit on Enter doesn't work the same way for the screen
readers. NVDA and JAWS, for instance catch the onclick event on hitting
Space and Enter, hence you will observe that a radio button or checkbox is
operable with Enter on a screen reader even though it is not operable with
the same key without the screen reader on.

Hi Mike,

My experience is very much limited as compared to the experts present on
the list, I'll just share with you what you observed so far during user
interactions which I did. Most of the users tend to go with the default
keys, like Space for radios and checkboxes, Alt + down arrow for a
dropdown, etc., with ofcourse a few exceptions.

My personal opinion would be to implement the user ask if it is an
Enterprise application meant for a small audience including the user. If
otherwise, I would agree with you that accessibility lies in consistency.

Thanks,
Vaibhav





On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 16:32, David Farough < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I think that verifying that focus is on the submit button makes sense
> before automatically submitting the form.
> A screen reader user will need to hit enter in order to trigger focus mode
> in order to type into an edit field for example.
> Automatically submitting the form regardless of the current focus would be
> annoying to say the least!
>
>