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IE8 and FF7: should recognize the datalist item as an edit combo because you can type text, or use UP or DOWN ARROW to move to the list box and change values. #1627

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nvaccessAuto opened this issue Jun 29, 2011 · 4 comments
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IE8 and FF7: should recognize the datalist item as an edit combo because you can type text, or use UP or DOWN ARROW to move to the list box and change values. #1627

nvaccessAuto opened this issue Jun 29, 2011 · 4 comments
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Reported by kevinchao89 on 2011-06-29 20:14
Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 7.0a1 (2011-06-29), NVDA Snapshot 4511.

  1. Open IE9 or Firefox and move to the following page:
    http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_datalist
  2. Press the letter M until you find the view frame. This frame has a datalist with three values, BMW, Ford and Volvo.
    Expected: NVDA to speak that it 's a view frame and summary of how many datalist are within frame.
    Actual: NVDA speaks "Edit, has autocomplete"
  3. Find the edit box and press ENTER to activate focus mode.
    Expected: NVDA to speak that it's an edit combobox
    Actual: NVDA speaks box as if it were a standard edit box, but it's possible to UP/DOWN ARROW.
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Comment 1 by jteh on 2011-06-30 00:10
A datalist is supposed to appear like an autocomplete, so treating it as an autocomplete is the correct behaviour. Therefore, NVDA should only report that there is an editable text field with autocomplete functionality and then speak the autocomplete list when it first appears (e.g. by pressing down arrow). It does both of these in Firefox. No additional behaviour is required or correct.

Leaving this open until I can confirm this behaviour in IE9. If IE9 behaves the same way, this is wontfix.

Btw, web site is for issues relating to the NVDA web site only. Please see TicketComponents for an explanation of the various components.

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@jcsteh As you expressed in #1627 (comment), you were going to test this issue in IE 9 and revert. This is a friendly reminder to do that, and accordingly triage this ticket. CC @ehollig for testing and triaging also

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ehollig commented Aug 6, 2017

The URL for this has changed. I believe it is now:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_elem_datalist
Note: The datalist tag is not supported in Safari or IE9 (and earlier)

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jcsteh commented Aug 6, 2017

Confirmed that datalist isn't supported for IE 8 or IE 9. Since everything works as expected in Firefox and this isn't supported by IE 8 or IE 9 (so not handling it is expected), closing as works for me.

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