As the person who submitted the original bug report, I want to clarify that there was no assumption that autosuggest would be useful to low- or non-vision users.
The problem is that one of our sites turned on autosuggest as a service to their vision users. They immediately began receiving complaints from non-vision users of JAWS who could no longer do a basic search of the catalog because JAWS is no longer able to recognize the text entry box. The user wasn't trying to use autosuggest, they were just trying to search.
As the person who submitted the original bug report, I want to clarify that there was no assumption that autosuggest would be useful to low- or non-vision users.
The problem is that one of our sites turned on autosuggest as a service to their vision users. They immediately began receiving complaints from non-vision users of JAWS who could no longer do a basic search of the catalog because JAWS is no longer able to recognize the text entry box. The user wasn't trying to use autosuggest, they were just trying to search.