option element

Estimated Support About

27.78% + 61.11% = 88.89%

JAWS

Chrome

92
5 6

Edge

92
6

IE

11
2 3 4 6

Firefox

73

Narrator

Edge

44
7

NVDA

Chrome

92
8 9

Edge

92

Firefox

73
4 9

Orca

Firefox

73
4 6

TalkBack

Android

80
10 6

VoiceOver (iOS)

iOS

13.3.1
11 6

VoiceOver (MacOS)

Safari

13.0.5
2 3 4 6

Dragon Naturally Speaking

Chrome

75-79
1 2 3 4

Voice Access (Android)

Android

77-79

Voice Control (iOS)

iOS

13.0-13.3.1
2 4

Voice Control (MacOS)

Safari

13.0.5-13.0.2
2 3 4

Windows Speech Recognition

Edge

44

Chrome

77-79
2 3 4

Notes

  • 1

    HTML select element test: Options within an optgroup are not supported. I said ‘click listbox’, ‘show choices’, ‘choose banana’, and the option was not activated. Saying ‘choose everything’ instead worked as expected (‘everything’ is not part of an optgroup).

  • 2

    Didn’t convey its name

  • 3

    Didn’t convey its role

  • 4

    Didn’t convey the value of the option when used in a datalist context

  • 5

    HTML input with datalist test: The menu context might imply a menuitem role instead of an option role

  • 6

    Didn’t convey information about the position the option in the list

  • 7

    HTML input with datalist test: Only the name is displayed by Edge and announced by Narrator if both the name and value are set.

  • 8

    HTML input with datalist test: the first item was announced as “row 1”, however other items did not convey their position.

  • 9

    HTML select element test: only conveyed when expanded

  • 10

    HTML input with datalist test: option role was implied by the announcement of “autofill menu” and “in list” when entering the list of options

  • 11

    HTML input with datalist test: Only the option value is listed as predictions, not the name.

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