Re: What is Recommended Practice for "Option Lists"?

This is a User Agent implementation issue. In this case I would say that
the implementation of keyboard access is not intuitive. Which means that
the documentation of alt-down-arrow is crucial for accessibility.

Charles

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Kelly Ford wrote:

  At 12:55 PM 3/5/99 -0500, Chris Kreussling wrote:
  >
  >As far as I know, there's no way to *navigate* through a selection list by
  keyboard without also selecting each option of the list in turn. Simply
  moving through the list "selects" the option, which triggers the onChange
  event. The only way to avoid "selecting" a state is to *scroll* through the
  list by clicking the drop-down button, clicking the scroll bar to find the
  state you want, then clicking the state. Notice the "click, click, click"
  here. There's no way to do this action by keyboard alone, so this is an
  accessibility design issue.
  
  Try pressing alt-down arrow when on the list.  I did this on the page and
  could move through the list of states without triggering the event.  If I
  pressed enter on the state I wanted, again after pressing alt-down arrow
  and moving through the list, I then went to my selected state.
  
  
  

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Received on Friday, 5 March 1999 13:45:43 UTC