#35870: Allow customization of the blank option in select dropdowns
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Reporter: Marijke Luttekes | Owner: Marijke
| Luttekes
Type: Bug | Status: assigned
Component: Forms | Version: 5.0
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: accessibility | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Marijke Luttekes):
Below is a response I received from James through Slack, as his response
was blocked by the spam filter for some reason:
> Thanks, Thibaud, for all of this testing and reporting back of results.
>
> I do want to say that it's unequivocally impossible to determine how a
given screen reader will read punctuation. The configurability of screen
readers largely renders that ineffective, including but not limited to:
> * language and locale;
> * speech engine;
> * voice;
> * preset or customised punctuation level;
> * verbosity setup; and
> * speech dictionary entries.
>
> With that in mind, something like "- select -" could work very well,
because it doesn't matter if the dashes are spoken explicitly, trigger a
pause in speech, or are ignored. The meaning will be understood
regardless. Indeed, it's probably better for most users if the dashes are
not spoken, but only if some text is present to make up for it.
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