input[type="text"] element

Estimated Support About

66.67% + 33.33% = 100.0%

JAWS

Chrome

92
1 2

Edge

92

IE

11
3 4

Firefox

72-73
1 5

Narrator

Edge

44
6

NVDA

Chrome

92
7 8

Edge

92

Firefox

68-73
9 10

Orca

Firefox

69-73

TalkBack

Android

76-80
11

VoiceOver (iOS)

iOS

12.3.1-13.3.1
13

VoiceOver (MacOS)

Safari

12.1.2-13.0.5
8

Dragon Naturally Speaking

Chrome

76-79

Voice Access (Android)

Android

77-79
12

Voice Control (iOS)

iOS

13.0-13.3.1

Voice Control (MacOS)

Safari

13.0.5-13.0.2

Windows Speech Recognition

Edge

44

Chrome

77-79

Notes

  • 1

    HTML input with datalist test: The role is not consistently conveyed across browsers, and is often presented with a modifier (“combo” or “has popup”) to convey the presence of the datalist.

  • 2

    HTML input with datalist test: Focus was sent back to the input and the input was announced

  • 3

    HTML input with datalist test: When paired with IE, JAWS does not alter the role to convey the datalist functionality.

  • 4

    HTML input with datalist test: unknown because it was not possible to navigate to a suggestion to activate

  • 5

    HTML input with datalist test: Unknown because it was not possible to navigate to a suggestion to activate

  • 6

    HTML input with datalist test: The value was announced after a suggestion was activated and focus was returned to the text input

  • 7

    HTML input with datalist test: The role is not consistently conveyed across browsers, and is often presented with a modifier (“combo box” or “has popup”) to convey the presence of the datalist.

  • 8

    HTML input with datalist test: Focus was returned to the text input

  • 9

    HTML input with datalist test: The role is not consistently conveyed across browsers, and is often presented with a modifier (“combo box” or “subMenu”) to convey the presence of the datalist.

  • 10

    HTML input with datalist test: Focus was returned to the text input but only the value was announced

  • 11

    HTML input with datalist test: value was announced and focus was returned to the text input.

  • 12

    Didn’t convey its name

  • 13

    HTML input with datalist test: The activated suggestion was announced, and focus was moved to a new suggestion

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