Hi Dave,
Try Alt Down Arrow first to open the combo boxes.
Even if you search, make alt down arrow your first keystroke after typing,
then press enter on the one you want to select. It may even say Expanded if
you press Alt Down Arrow.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: David Mehler
Sent: Sunday, June 4, 2023 2:17 AM
To: blind-sysadmins
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] edit/select combo box extreme difficulties
Hello,
The specific I'm going to call it an HTML5 edit/select combo box I'm talking
about is specifically on Cloudflare, but any of these will work for the
purposes of this question.
I'm using the latest NVDA/chrome combo and I was on cloudflare atempting
first to fill out there add a payment method form, second transferring a
domain, but the specifics don't matter I mention them in case you want to
see the specifics of where I was.
I encountered what I think is an HTML5 edit/select combo box that's probably
coded right and it might be my unfamiliarness that's preventing me from
easily selecting items. I can fill out regular combo boxes no problem but
this one first thing you get is selec, then it says press down arrow while
in the edit field to open up a menu, press enter to select, escape to close
the menu, tab to select and close the menu. I've tried this with both
NVDA+space on and off it was not easy to do. There were two of them, the
second one had two options one starting with a b the other with a p, so no
problem. The first one which was the problem and which took me many
frustrating hours to get, and I feel I got it by dumb luck/trial/error has a
list of countries, obviously I want to select United States since that's
where I am. In the edit/combo box I can start typing the word united and
I'll eventually get two options, the first for "United States minor outlying
islands" the second is "United States" I want the second one.
So I tried hitting space, tab, enter, insert+space on and off and when I had
one it would say "United States minor outlying islands" it was not easy to
get.
If anyone has anything on these specific controls please let me know, I have
to do four more before the project that got me going is done and I'd prefer
not to punt, peck, and pray to get it right for a day or more each.
Thanks.
Dave.
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