search with autocomplete

I was recently thinking about to make a search with autocomplete
solution work in relation to a screenreader and in the middle of doing
so I developed the rather jarring idea that I could think of no way in
which such a thing could ever be useful to a blind user of a
screenreader (although perhaps useful for a sighted user)

In my experience autocomplete works for me because while typing I can
with a bit of pattern recognition see that what I am looking for is
suddenly in the first few results and immediately select what I want.

Are there any studies of autocomplete solutions for blind users where
they actually say this was useful for us? Is there any blind user on
the list here who can say they have used an autocomplete solution that
helped them? If so, what were the best parts of that solution?

Thanks,
Bryan Rasmussen

Received on Wednesday, 16 June 2021 19:52:03 UTC