Bug 22232 – Alt + Down Arrow in Combo box should show the drop down option box, as should F4

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: Forms

[Anantha Keesara]

Steps:
1. Open any page which has drop down combo boxes 
2. press Alt + <down-arrow> 

Other Browsers:
     Safari 3: FAIL
    Firefox 3: OK
         IE 7: OK

Webkit nightly tested: r38192

Chromium bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1945

[Anantha Keesara]

Created attachment 25127 [details]
reduction

[Chandan G]

Hello,

I have raised the bug almost an year ago on chromium. The link to chromium regarding this bug request can be found below.
The bug request got pushed to webkit, and its been more than 9 months since that happened.

The bug request here is still stated as "UNCOMFIRMED"

Can somebody please respond to this. Or atleast please reply with a comment (even if it only says - that's webkit: deal with it)

[Adam]

I can confirm this bug in the latest Chrome 8.0.552.210 beta build.

This is an accessibility issue, people who need keyboard only support can not view all drop down options with the keyboard.

Alt+UP/DOWN for select drop down boxes is standard behavior in IE, FF, and Opera and has been (in at least IE and FF afaik) for a very very long time.

Could someone please look into it.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

On the Mac version of Safari, <select> pop-ups are displayed when pressing the down arrow with or without Option. Sounds like a Windows-specific issue.

Confirming by popular vote.

[Markus Keller]

This is really an annoying accessibility issue. Note that it's not only about complying with other browsers, it's also about adhering to Windows platform standards.

E.g. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449 says:
ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box

[Ram Rachum]

I just found that F4 on Windows XP also opens the dropdown box in native applications. So I suggest it should open the dropdown box in WebKit as well.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

OK, let's try tracking both key combinaitons in this bug. But generally, it's best to have a separate bug for every issue.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Actually, Alt+Down case is a duplicate of bug 14407. But F4 isn't being implemented there at the moment.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

F4 got implemented in bug 14407, too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14407 ***