Accessibility

[stephenhebert]

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IIUC, this library / component doesn't seem to support accessibility for visually-impairment / screen-readers.

I'm noticing things like missing labels on the options in the dropdown list and missing labels (or id attribute) on the input when the searchable option is true.

To reproduce, just use any of the demos on the vue-multiselect homepage with a screen reader. (I'm currently using ChromeVox.)

Is there currently any plan to add support for accessibility?

[vincerubinetti]

I found the same problem with @vueform/multiselect, an oft-recommended alternative to this library. If you look at the HTML for this component, you see no aria-/role/etc attributes. Just divs with tabindex. That's not semantic enough info for a screenreader to make sense of.

vue-select seems to be a possible alternative that considers accessibility. Not sure why I hadn't seen it before. Maybe I thought it was only single select, but it has multiple.