On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Highlander II wrote:
This takes out some of the auto-complete and allows for accessibility for
users who can't use / don't like / don't have javascript etc. It also, if
you're horrible about remembering which freaking tags you've actually USED
in the past, eliminates the step of 'post entry' / 'edit tags'. Instead of
that extra click, you're already *on* the tags page and can add whatever you
need to.
In general, the presence of JavaScript isn't a problem for
accessibility as long as turning JavaScript off doesn't takeaway
core functionality. So adding tag auto complete to the existing
tag entry box on the update.bml page would be fine, because
turning off JavaScript wouldn't prevent somebody who knew their
tags from just typing them in.
As for checkboxes -- well, from an accessibility perspective, I
would personally love checkboxes, because I actually can't do the
current control-click control to select multiple tags on lj. That
being said, some of us do have yonks of tags, and a scrolling
list -- though in accessible in many ways -- is much more
manageable to people who don't have the accessibility problem.
I'm not quite sure what the appropriate workaround is here. A
general rule for accessibility is "separate is not equal"; you
should be able to get accessible material out of the same page
available to all the other users. Maybe JavaScript to keep the
size of the displayed list small, but still functional checkboxes
for users without JavaScript?
-jadelennox
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