I am not a UX person, but in thinking about it from a user perspective I would say that it seems that context and user goals would determine usability. For example, if I were going to use this as a date range picker for my assignment, I would like it less than the use of a small calendar, because the calendar is the primary context for thinking about the semester and due dates. However, if I were in a project management tool and creating a project plan which will be visualized via a gantt chart, a horizontal slider would make good sense.
On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: > 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 ================================== Mara Hancock ETS Interim Director http://ets.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley Educational Technology Services 9 Dwinelle Hall, #2535 Berkeley, CA 94720 Desk: 510-643-9923 Mobile: 510-407-0543 _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
