RE: search with autocomplete

I too use these frequently and find them of immense value and am a screen reading user.  The times I don't are more about the experience of an individual example the concept.  For example, for me personally, being informed how many results after each character I type can be quite disruptive. What is better is to hear the default result after you enter a character. Communication of the total results should happen only after this in my view.

Kelly



-----Original Message-----
From: Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:13 PM
To: bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: search with autocomplete

I use them on a regular basis, and find them useful for exactly the same reasons a sighted person might - they help me find something when I don't have complete information, and/or they help me enter the thing I'm intrested in more quickly than typing might permit.



On 16/06/2021 20:50, bryan rasmussen wrote:
> 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
> 

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