Re: search with autocomplete

Do you or anyone else know how to implement an example of this - hear
the default result after you enter a character?

Thanks,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:28 PM <kelly@kellford.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Kelly
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> -----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
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> > 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.
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> > 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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