Autocomplete is not Accessable (Tested on NVDA)

[mohammedzamakhan]

I have tested Autocomplete with NVDA and it reads "blank" instead of the list items when you use arrows to scroll through the list

[marcysutton]

@zamamohammed we worked on a fix and just pushed it to master in a787e22. Can you try again?

[mohammedzamakhan]

@marcysutton I am still hearing the 'blank'

Please listen to the recording:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9ezng1yocskjqg/Autocomplete.swf?dl=0

[marcysutton]

I see what you're saying. It's really slow to announce "There is one match available" or the selection on arrow down in Firefox/NVDA despite having aria-live="assertive" on the text to be announced. Sometimes it doesn't read at all. It's great in VoiceOver, but not so good in JAWS and NVDA (which have higher usage). I'll see if I can make it better.

@robertmesserle we might need to change how we append text to <aria-status>....I think appends and detaches too fast for the virtual buffer in JAWS and NVDA.

[mohammedzamakhan]

Most of the custom dropdown plugins in the Community (Chosen, Select2 etc) also has the same issue with it, the only implementation I liked is of Jquery UI (http://jqueryui.com/selectmenu/)

[marcysutton]

Good to know. I think we can get it working by improving our implementation. The inspiration for our autocomplete was actually Twitter's Typeahead/draft tweet functionality.