Topic: Material Select - Keyboard Navigation?

cdenby pro asked 5 years ago


When using a browser default select, it's possible to focus (tab in) and then use the keyboard to navigate the selection.

Example:

<select>
   <option value="1">1</option>
   <option value="1a">1a</option>
   <option value="1b">1b</option>
   <option value="2a">2a</option>
   <option value="2b">2b</option>
   <option value="2c">2c</option>
   <option value="3">3</option>
</select>

In this case, we can get focus and then key "1" once for the "1", again for the "1a" and again for the "1b".

Is that functionality a possibility at all with materialSelect? I can't seem to find anything about this.


Piotr Glejzer staff commented 5 years ago

There is not possible with material select for now. I add a task to look into this in the future. Have a nice day.


Jogesh pro commented 5 years ago

Hello Piotr Glejzer, We also had the same accessibility issue, without which Material Select component is not a 100 percent accessible component. We see many users raising this keyboard navigation and the auto-focus to search input issues in common. So kindly prioritize this issue at top.


Jogesh pro commented 5 years ago

Hello Piotr Glejzer, It's been more than a month and we have no update from your team, can we expect a fix on this issue in the upcoming release.


Piotr Glejzer staff commented 5 years ago

we still didn't improve that keyboard navigation. Not all suggest we can implement in the fastest way but we try to this as soon as possible.



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