Replace "chosen" script with a more accessible option

[robincornett]

Enhancement Request

...we should look at deprecating Chosen (which itself has been Deprecated https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen) and replacing it with a more maintained alternative, such as:

• https://github.com/jshjohnson/Choices
• https://github.com/woocommerce/selectwoo

Related #2758 #4375

Originally posted by @spencerfinnell in #7583 (comment)

Justification or use case

Any select option using Chosen is currently not accessible to keyboard or screen reader users.

[spencerfinnell]

Noting that @robincornett opened this issue as a place to discuss alternatives/replacements for Chosen and to keep #7583 as a tracking issue for removing existing unneeded usage.

[cklosowski]

Is Select2 an option? It seems to still be maintained.

[robincornett]

selectWoo is a select2 fork with accessibility related improvements and fixes so is probably a better option.

[cklosowski]

I find it interesting that they chose to fork instead of contribute upstream. Maybe the Select2 team isn’t open to their suggestions.

[JJJ]

I spent last night forking Chosen, here: https://github.com/JJJ/chosen

• 25 pull requests merged, out of 55 (including Aria & Role support!)
• Oldest pull request was 8 years old (yikes!)
• It's fully accessible (probably!)
• It's working (tests are failing tho!)
• Styling modernized (kinda!)
• Old stuff killed (ie8, Bower, weird build process, etc!)
• New stuff we can do in the future (webpack, React!)

Please consider giving my fork a try. It is drop-in replacement for what is in EDD already, and I'd love some help getting the tests to pass 🤗

I find it interesting that they chose to fork instead of contribute upstream...

I chose(ha!) to fork Chosen because it was tagged as deprecated and unmaintained by the folks at Harvest. It sat for a few years with tons of comments and PRS, but nobody helping them.

[spencerfinnell]

I'm not sure we should close this out completely until Chosen adds mobile support: JJJ/chosen#33

Currently searching for Downloads (or anything dynamic) does not work on mobile.

[robincornett]

Would it be worth opening a new issue, @spencerfinnell? I saw that John updated Chosen to 2.2.0 and what we've put into EDD 3.0 is 2.1.0, so an update would be needed anyway. Also, based on your comments there, this is a current issue with 2.9.x, yes?

[spencerfinnell]

@robincornett Sure -- probably a good idea to track it separately.