[Dropdown] Selection should be announced to screenreader #6523
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made div holding current selection a live region so the selection is announced by screenreader. Would also live to label the created input that precedes it on search/select component (wherever that may be), which is currently silent and misleads the user.
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Please do come back to me with any queries on this. Eager to get some access into SUI so I can use the main build for my institutional clients. At the moment the framework is unusable as it fails basic access requirements. Would also like to, at minimum:
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I think you should consider creating a PR on fomantic/Fomantic-UI if you have any enhancements in mind. SUI is a little bit on the dead side nowadays. |
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Description
made div holding current selection a live region so the selection is announced by screenreader.
Testcase
Navigate to a select in a form using a screenreader (even Chromevox)
Screenreader is silent, cannot traverse options, cannot select options, form is broken
My fix is described above