Updated per comments

Author: Eric Olkowski

packages/react-core/src/components/ContextSelector/ContextSelector.tsx

@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ export class ContextSelector extends React.Component<ContextSelectorProps, { oui
           >
             <div className={css(styles.contextSelectorMenuSearch)}>
               <SearchInput
+                type="search"
                 submitSearchButtonLabel={searchButtonAriaLabel}
                 placeholder={searchInputPlaceholder}
                 onChange={onSearchInputChange}

packages/react-core/src/components/ContextSelector/__tests__/__snapshots__/ContextSelector.test.tsx.snap

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ exports[`ContextSelector Renders ContextSelector open 1`] = `
                     </svg>
                   </span>
                   <input
-                    aria-label="Search menu items"
+                    aria-label="Search input"
                     class="pf-c-text-input-group__text-input"
                     placeholder="Search"
                     type="text"
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ exports[`ContextSelector Renders ContextSelector open 1`] = `
             </div>
             <button
               aria-disabled="true"
-              aria-label="Search"
+              aria-label="Search menu items"
               class="pf-c-button pf-m-control pf-m-disabled"
               data-ouia-component-id="OUIA-Generated-Button-control-1"
               data-ouia-component-type="PF4/Button"
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ exports[`ContextSelector Renders in strict mode 1`] = `
                     </svg>
                   </span>
                   <input
-                    aria-label="Search menu items"
+                    aria-label="Search input"
                     class="pf-c-text-input-group__text-input"
                     placeholder="Search"
                     type="text"
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ exports[`ContextSelector Renders in strict mode 1`] = `
             </div>
             <button
               aria-disabled="true"
-              aria-label="Search"
+              aria-label="Search menu items"
               class="pf-c-button pf-m-control pf-m-disabled"
               data-ouia-component-id="OUIA-Generated-Button-control-3"
               data-ouia-component-type="PF4/Button"

packages/react-core/src/components/SearchInput/SearchInput.tsx

@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ const SearchInputBase: React.FunctionComponent<SearchInputProps> = ({
           variant={ButtonVariant.control}
           aria-label={submitSearchButtonLabel}
           onClick={onSearchHandler}
-          isDisabled={isDisabled || !searchValue}
+          isDisabled={isDisabled}
         >
           <ArrowRightIcon />
         </Button>