Re: Opinions on a single-tabstop split button?

My immediate concern would be that without a specific new role (and the 
necessary plumbing into platform accessibility APIs etc), I'm not sure 
how screen readers would know to also pass the down arrow keypress to 
the page, rather than consuming it themselves. Which would then make it 
impossible to open the split button with keyboard/AT.

For mouse/touch/stylus users, I'm guessing you'd plan to implement some 
sort of complex click handling? A click handler on the button itself, 
and then a separate click handler on the "down arrow icon" part (making 
sure it doesn't then bubble up to trigger its parent button)?

Lastly, how would speech recognition users trigger the down arrow part?

P
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Received on Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:17:29 UTC