RE: accessible autocomplete

Hello,
There are precise instructions for creating accessible autocomplete widgets in strict compliance with the ARIA spec, at
https://www.levelaccess.com/differences-aria-1-0-1-1-changes-rolecombobox/


At present only the 1.0 combobox design pattern is most widely supported for public usage.

All relevant widgets are included in the GitHub archive at
https://github.com/whatsock/tsg


Best wishes,
Bryan



Bryan Garaventa
Principal Accessibility Architect
Level Access, Inc.
Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
415.624.2709 (o)
www.LevelAccess.com<http://www.levelaccess.com/>

From: Michellanne Li <michellanne.li@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:14 PM
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Subject: accessible autocomplete

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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