Re: accessible autocomplete

Just for completeness sake: There is the native <datalist> element for
this. Unfortunately, it is still not available or buggy in some
browsers. I am also not sure if the existing implementations are
accessible. But at some point in the future this should be the way to go.

tobias


On 20/03/2019 03:13, Michellanne Li wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has a preferred method or plugin for creating
> accessible form input fields with autocomplete. To be clear, I understand
> that you can simply use the autocomplete attribute, but I'd like to take it
> a step further and provide a list of suggestions, like this demo from W3
> Schools on How to Create Autocomplete
> <https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_autocomplete.asp>.
> 
> I've used chosen.js <https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/> in the past, but
> my research indicates that it still has usability issues with AT.
> 
> Thanks so much!
> 
> Michellanne Li
> (512) 718-2207
> http://www.michellanne.com
> 

Received on Wednesday, 20 March 2019 05:55:28 UTC