Greetings,
My team and I are wondering about the possibility for the DropDownLists to be configurable to allow screenreader users to focus disabled items in the dropdown list.
Currently in the DropDownList, it is not possible (or we can't discover) to reach disabled items in a DropDownList (not talking about the input itself being disabled, but rather items inside)
https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/components/dropdowns/dropdownlist/disabled-items/
Regardless of if this functionality does or does not violate any accessibility standards, we believe it would be a useful feature for screen reader users. We are also aware that the default HTML select does skip disabled options:
There is precedent for this behavior in drop down lists from other vendors:
https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/components/dropdown/examples#disabled
https://github.com/JedWatson/react-select/issues/3354
Other relevant discussions:
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/14190
Perhaps adding a simple [disabledItemsFocusable]="false" boolean (false by default for backwards compatibility) to the inputs could be a solution here.
