Re: [orca-list] oddity with some search fields

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Just for the record google search field has shown this for a year or two now, maybe even longer,.
I generally doi nhot mind, but oit is a bit confusing when trying to use structural nav, i.e. using e for an 
edit box, field or whatever they are 
officially called in most cases is the logical behavior as one normally will enter some text before 
considering the posibility of using the dropdown com 
combo box...lol.
Of course one canb just choose an old search I guess, but I don't yet have that level of demencia to 
constantly research the same term..., but I suppose 
some people do repeat the same search regularly to se if anything has changed.
I do not know what the best solution is here, but perhaps Kendell is on to something with the idea of adding 
a new category. 
I kind of wish it could be either always called both an edit and combo boxs, or have it be an edit field 
until one has entered someting, and then if one 
leaves and comes back make it be called a combo...maybe very ugly to code, but would be a pretty good 
solution from this end user's point of blindness.
 


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  Janina Sajka wrote:
Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:15:52PM -0400

> I've also seen this and have, frankly, wondered what this could mean.
>
> Is the "combobox" nature some sort of auto completion? Is that what
> "combo" means in this context? I haven't stopped to try and figure that
> out.
>
> My general experience with autocompletes is that the machine is more
> often wrong than right, but your mileage may vary, of course.
>
> Janina
>
> kendell clark writes:
> > hi all
> > I'm writing in to report some strangeness with some search fields on
> > websites. Steps to reproduce: go to either www.walmart.com or
> > www.google.com. Orca reports both search fields as a combo box, but
> > enters focus mode correctly for you to enter text in. I'm wondering if
> > this might be changed to something like ... editable combo box maybe or
> > combo box entry ... I'm not sure what a good name would be for it. THe
> > problem is, I'm not sure if there's a way for orca to distinguish
> > between normal combo boxes and these search field ones. Orca works with
> > the fields just fine, it's just a bit odd. Can anyone else confirm this?
> > Also, the shortcut for going to the next entry doesn't work on these
> > fields, you need to use the shortcut to jump to the next combo box. I'm
> > guessing there's not much that can be done since it depends on how the
> > website was coded, but just thought I'd bring it up.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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