Re: [orca-list] Yahoo! Search Assistant interaction is crippled by Orca

[Scott Haeger <scott bashautomation com>]

Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Hi Will and other Orca developers,
> Yahoo.com has a great and very clever feature called Search Assistant 
> which displays suggestions for search terms as you type.
> Keyboard users can review these suggestions by using up and down arrows 
> while in a "search" edit field.
> While Orca gracefully reads search suggestions as they come up on the 
> screen, it does not allow using up and down arrow keys in the "search" 
> text field to review them.
> ...unless I am missing something totally obvious...
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> vic
>
>   
Hey Victor. The combobox type widget that makes up the yahoo search 
assistant is actually an entry and a paragraph (the list). This widget 
structure could sure use some ARIA markup to let Orca know what type of 
widget it is. Without it, we treat it like an entry. An interim solution 
is to use Orca+F12, where Orca=CapsLock(laptop) or Insert(desktop), to 
toggle caret navigation controls from Orca to Firefox. This will allow 
you to use the arrow keys to move down the list. Toggle back after your 
selection.

Scott

Scott