Timeline for Patterns for keyboard accessible drop down lists
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 16:05 | comment | added | dannydev | I just wanted to add, in Safari 6 the space bar opens the dropdown options when focused. Hadn't seen any mention of the space bar just modifier keys. | |
| Sep 3, 2012 at 10:29 | history | edited | ChrisF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2012 at 10:16 | comment | added | Sam Hasler | AHA! Pressing Alt+Up or Alt+Down works in Firefox and IE for web pages and settings dialogs, but not in Chrome. | |
| Sep 3, 2012 at 10:14 | comment | added | ChrisF | @SamHasler - thanks for the research. It does look like there's no standard. | |
| Sep 3, 2012 at 10:11 | comment | added | Sam Hasler | Drop downs stay closed in web pages on Chrome, Firefox and IE9, and in those browsers settings dialogs. The ribbon UI and settings dialogs in Excel 2010 do open the drop down when pressing the up/down arrow keys. | |
| Sep 3, 2012 at 9:37 | history | edited | ChrisF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2012 at 9:36 | comment | added | ChrisF | @SamHasler - ah. I'll have to double check that. | |
| Sep 3, 2012 at 9:33 | comment | added | Sam Hasler | all the drop downs I've tried do not open when using the arrow keys, they just move the selection without showing the list. Can you give a specific example of an app or system that behaves in this way? | |
| Sep 3, 2012 at 9:32 | history | edited | ChrisF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2012 at 9:26 | history | answered | ChrisF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |