Autocomplete: Lack of visual cue for results #4015
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accessibility
audit july 2024
Issues from July 2024 external accessibility audit against WCAG 2.2 criteria
This issue is from the accessibility audit of the Design System website by DAC in July 2024.
DAC's description
When a user inputs data into the text field additional content will be revealed below. Our low vision analyst reported that when viewing the page within a highly magnified state it is difficult to determine if there is new content being added to the page and that it would be helpful if there were additional cues provided to inform them of this behaviour.
DAC's proposed solution
We suggest implementing a chevron associated to the text input to indicate to users that there is additional content being displayed below.
Other potential solutions
There might be other solutions.
If the chevron is always there, the component might be misunderstood to be a select box.
This needs some nuanced design thinking.
Additional instances
This component appears on every page but is a single component, therefore only needs to be fixed once.
It uses the accessible autocomplete component.
Needed roles
Designer, frontend developer
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