Re: accessible autocomplete

Thanks so much for everyone's input! I really appreciate it.

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


On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:27 PM Bryan Garaventa <
bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> There are precise instructions for creating accessible autocomplete
> widgets in strict compliance with the ARIA spec, at
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> https://www.levelaccess.com/differences-aria-1-0-1-1-changes-rolecombobox/
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> At present only the 1.0 combobox design pattern is most widely supported
> for public usage.
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> All relevant widgets are included in the GitHub archive at
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> https://github.com/whatsock/tsg
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> Best wishes,
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> Bryan
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> Bryan Garaventa
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> Principal Accessibility Architect
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> Level Access, Inc.
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> Bryan.Garaventa@LevelAccess.com
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> 415.624.2709 (o)
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> www.LevelAccess.com <http://www.levelaccess.com/>
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> *From:* Michellanne Li <michellanne.li@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:14 PM
> *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
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