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From: Tomlins Diane
Date: May 12, 2022 7:42AM

Thanks Glen, JP, and David, for the confirmation. I guess I've always just run into the plain old down arrow variety, I haven't been doing this for quite as long as all of you :).

For some reason though, NVDA won't announce the items in the first combobox as you arrow through them. There are 2 comboboxes after it in the form, same code, and it does announce those. I have a few things to try, maybe one of my extensions is interfering, I've had that happen before.

Diane R. Tomlins


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I expect a plain down (or up) arrow to just change the combobox value without displaying the dropdown list.

I've been using alt+down to open the dropdown list since the previous millennium.


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 4:29 PM Andrews, David B (DEED) via WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Alt-down arrow is relatively common, not universal, but not rare either.
> Most screen reader users know to try it.
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> Dave
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