#15091 open bug ()

Opened November 02, 2016 02:38PM UTC

Last modified May 03, 2017 01:01PM UTC

selectmenu should probably not be a combobox

Reported by: mfairchild365 Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: none
Component: ui.selectmenu Version: 1.12.1
Keywords: accessibility Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

My understanding of the selectmenu widget is that it exists to replace the default select form control as provided by browsers. However, jQuery UI is giving it a role="combobox", which according to the aria specification means that it MUST contain a textbox to allow searching the items in the selectmenu (see autocomplete). This could understandably lead to issues with screen readers and might even explain https://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/10407

See the selectmenu demo for an example: https://jqueryui.com/selectmenu/

See

1) https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#combobox

2) https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#combobox

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Change History (2)

Changed November 02, 2016 04:18PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:1

status: new → open

We should probably be using listbox.

Changed May 03, 2017 01:01PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:2

keywords: → accessibility