Re: accessible autocomplete

Thanks so much, this is really helpful!

Michellanne Li
(512) 718-2207
http://www.michellanne.com


On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:41 PM Steve Green <steve.green@testpartners.co.uk>
wrote:

> There is an example of such a feature at
> https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/. A couple of weeks ago we did
> some user testing with disabled people and a variety of assistive
> technologies including screen readers on desktop and mobile devices, a
> screen magnifier and Dragon voice recognition software. The
> search-as-you-type feature performed very well for all of them.
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> Unfortunately, I can’t tell you how it is built – we only do the testing.
> But the UK government is keen to share good practices and have stated on
> many occasions that anyone is welcome to use their code, even for
> commercial purposes.
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> It is worth noting that many UK government websites contain features that
> look the same and work the same for “normal” users, but they are coded
> differently and some don’t work at all with assistive technologies. This
> one is the best implementation I have seen and it does not have any obvious
> flaws or drawbacks.
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> Steve Green
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> Managing Director
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> Test Partners Ltd
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> *From:* Michellanne Li <michellanne.li@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 20 March 2019 02:14
> *To:* WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> *Subject:* accessible autocomplete
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> Hello all,
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> 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>.
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> 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.
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> Thanks so much!
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> Michellanne Li
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> (512) 718-2207
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> http://www.michellanne.com
>