Hi Yohan, Thanks for your response!
In my case, we might have situation where only 1 of the two search boxes might have the type ahead implemented. Knowing AJAX the server trip would take 2-3 sec, we are exploring to have some visual cue for the user so that he knows what to expect. I looked at your implementation and it looks interesting. Any thoughts on how you are planning to implement this? Sandeep Karmarkar Visit my Portfolio @ http://www.sandykarmarkar.com Visit my sketches and landscapes @ http://www.sandykarmarkar.com/portfolio/other6.htm On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Yohan Creemers | Ylab <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Sandeep, > > In many cases the suggestions only appear after the user types 2 or 3 > characters. In those cases a visual cue seems very useful. In a recent > project, I added a visual cue to the textboxes with type ahead (or auto > complete) functionality. > > The visual cue I added is not intuitive, but I expect that people will make > sense of it after a short period. It has not been tested yet. > > For sketches see: > http://www.ylab.nl/portfolio/kiesbeter > > > In answer to your other question: > 2. I don't think it's confusing to have two type of text boxes. In some > cases auto complete functionality makes sense (eg: search field), in other > cases it doesn't (eg: password phrase, birthday). But, i.m.o., it would be > confusing if there were similar fields (eg: two search boxes) without any > visual cue when only one of them offers type ahead suggestions. > > 3. In many cases the list of suggestions is retrieved from a server using > Ajax. Thus content is added, after the page has finished loading. As far as > I know, screen readers and similar devices can't handle this dynamic > content. People relying on these devices don't benefit from the type ahead > functionality, but they can still use the text box in the non-enhanced way. > > Best regards, > Yohan. > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
