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Making a Better Custom Select Element

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Gerard K. Cohen

Agreed, accessible custom selects are necessary and we should not always push the native if use cases are not solved by it. I would also like to share my learnings when diving into this problem: https://www.technica11y.org/making-custom-selects-accessible

Custom Selects are not going away, so I think it’s important that we explore ways to make this usable for everyone.

Jay

I’m familiar with the aria concepts, but find them hard to put together for anything non-trivial. Thanks for running through a complete example. It’s especially useful to see the part about the hidden “count” while typing, since that’s not an obvious thing (as a sighted user).

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