Unplanned
Last Updated: 28 Apr 2023 15:51 by Evan
Evan
Created on: 27 Apr 2023 21:27
Category: DropDownList
Type: Feature Request
1
Request for optional configuration for dropdown lists to allow for focusing disabled items for screen reader users

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:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select#advanced_select_with_multiple_features

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.

2 comments
Evan
Posted on: 28 Apr 2023 15:51

Thanks Martin.

To clarify: when I say 'Regardless of if this functionality does or does not violate any accessibility standards' I should have specified that by 'this functionality' I meant the existing functionality of skipping the disabled items.

If the proposed functionality violates standards then of course it shouldn't be implemented.

ADMIN
Martin
Posted on: 28 Apr 2023 06:02

Hi Evan,

Thank you for the provided feedback,

We will track the customer demand for this request in our Feeback Portal and consider adding this enhancement based on the interest.

Regards,
Martin
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