Re: ARIA AT Video Demo

That's right this is the select-only-combo box. I also originally thought a
long list would make more sense because I thought there was a type ahead
box, but this is the one that only has select options.

Based on this thread, we're going to go forward with the select-only-combox
with 3-4 items in it in the context of a doctors office.

Please let me know if you see any issue with that.

Thanks!
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:08 PM James Scholes <james@pac.bz> wrote:

> Note that we're discussing select-only comboboxes for this demo, which
> don't work on macOS Safari plus VO.  E.g.:
>
> https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/examples/combobox/combobox-select-only.html
>
> In other words, the ARIA version of a native HTML select.
>
> Regards,
>
> James Scholes
> Director of Digital Accessibility, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
>
> On 31/01/2022 at 8:33 pm, Sina Bahram wrote:
> > IMHO, as described, this is a listbox, not a combobox as it does not
> provide any editing. Also, for a list of three items, it may not convey the
> reasons for the criticality of such a component being done correctly. A
> list of states would at least provide a large enough list where things like
> first letter navigation, type ahead, and so forth are critical e.g. I just
> type ‘N’ followed by ‘O’ to land on North Carolina in such lists instead of
> arrowing dozens of times. When they are broken, I can’t do that, so it
> quite literally takes orders of magnitude more time to complete that
> micro-task.
> >
> >
> >
> > Important to note that I’m still describing a listbox above. For it to
> be a combobox, we would want editing to occur within the field along with
> iteration e.g. the address bar in your browser is a combobox, as are search
> fields with autocomplete, and so forth.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>