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



hi,
a tad ot, but
if you were to change your user agent string in firefox to iphone3.0
via user agent switcher addon you loose all that search issue.
in google.
it is because the site believes you are running an iphone :)
I hope this helps someone
Majid

On 29/07/2016, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:
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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