Does not work in modern screenreaders/bad ARIA

[aFarkas]

Hi Felix,

The widget and the added ARIAs are wrong and it does not work right with any screenreader. The selectbox with a label and a value is transformed to menu-button with a name (label) but without a value.

If I change the value using the cursor, the value visually changes, but there is no value, which changes. If I hit enter the popup doesn't really open.

I wrote an article, which describes how to create a proper select-menu which works in IE8+ and Firefox 3.5+ (You have to do some extras for IE8, because IE8 does not support aria-valuetext/aria-valuenow). You should really look into the article (german) and the demo.

If you want to discuss some parts, you can ping me. My skype name is diabolictrixta (Alexander Farkas Berlin).

cheers
alex

[fnagel]

Hey Alex,

thanks for your contribution! The ARIA support was originally implemented by Scott from Filament Group a long time ago. I never checked it but I will take a look asap.
Im currently pretty busy and there is another major issue which needs to be fixed more urgent. Ive added this issue to milestone v1.3 (https://github.com/fnagel/jquery-ui/issues/milestones) which focus is on accessibility. I will contact you when I start working on this one!

Yours
Felix

ps: Ive learned a lot from your blog and mentioned some of it in my master thesis :-) Thanks a lot for that!

[fnagel]

Please take a look here as your knowledge could be very useful: #140

[fnagel]

Would you mind test the latest version? I will take a look at this one soon and contact you via skype!

[fnagel]

Alex and I skyped and decided to put our effort into the new version of selectmenu (see #140).

Patches to improve this branch of selectmenu are still welcome and will be included!