Sorry for sending this twice, but I forgot to include the fluid-work mailing list last time.
All, > The form I've seen is a slider with two thumbs, allowing the user to > select two endpoints of a range, thereby selecting a range. Here are some examples: http://www.ajaxorized.com/dateslider/slider.html http://tobias.klpstn.com/dojo/dojox/widget/tests/test_RangeSlider.html http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ui/demos/ui.slider.html, examples 3 and 4. Main issues are: 1. what are the keystrokes for keyboard access? This question has already been forwarded to the dhtml style guide group. 2. what are the role(s) and properties? Is it a new role (sub-range slider)? A new sub-role? Overarching the above is a question as to whether this is a usable widget. Perhaps that's not a question for this group (wai-pfwg), and it looks like the horse has left the barn (or is leaving soon), so perhaps it's moot. I would like to seek advice from user experience folks about this new widget, hence I'm cc'ing the fluid-work list. Fluid-work list: this is the same widget Eli brought up last Jan: http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/2008-January/001341.html David Bolter wrote: > What we are beginning to see are widgets that allow the user to select > a range. The form I've seen is a slider with two thumbs, allowing the > user to select two endpoints of a range, thereby selecting a range. > This is a strange beast. Seems like an unlawful marriage of role > slider and property multiselect. What do we want to do with it? > > Out in the wild, I see at least jquery has one, and one is landing in > dojox (the dojo staging area). > > We discussed this on #wai-aria today to the point of thinking we > needed to raise the issue. (Hopefully not to push the last call date, > but to just get a basic plan ready, and consider impact on roles and > wording, specifically perhaps the range role) > > cheers, > David > -- ;;;;joseph 'This is not war -- this is pest control!' - "Doomsday", Dalek Leader - _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
