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('keypress', this. listen for keypress event (omitted other listeners and support test logic)

Var resultsContainer = $('results_container') Var loadingElement = $('loading_element') JAVASCRIPT (abstracted from a Prototype class, DO NOT use as-is) Text-to-speech capabilities are a vital component of AI assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, which talk with users by converting their replies into digital speech.

This was a serious PITA to make accessible, but it IS possible. A screen reader is a software application that converts the text displayed on a computer screen into synthesized speech. For the select menu to be made keyboard accessible, we registered the keypress & onchange events and fired the AJAX call when users tabbed off of the list (beware of browser differences in timing of the onchange event). The real code is a lot more complex and obviously could not be included in its entirety, so remember this will have to be rethought for production use. Here is an adapted real world example - this up-level markup has already been converted from an unordered list with links into a select menu via JS.