Hi Joseph, So, i this case we could use a controls relationship to control the slider range:
http://www.ajaxorized.com/dateslider/slider.html For the other ones they get more interesting. I would like to know the keyboard interaction model for having set the start and end points for the range on a slider. The current accessibility APIs for MSAA, IA2, or ATK/ATSPI do not provide for a step in the value interfaces. We could place it in object properties but that requires the AT to look another place for value information. I will put this on the agenda but I don't know if this will make it for ARIA 1.0. My concern is that Sun has an accordion that has been put off to ARIA 2.0 and they have already worked out the keyboard details. If we let this in we have to be cognizant of opening up the flood gates. I will put this on the ARIA agenda. I don't know that we will get to it this week but we will try. Rich Rich Schwerdtfeger Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer Joseph Scheuhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To a> David Bolter Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w3c-wai-pf-reques cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] W3C WAI-PFWG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 04/18/2008 10:37 Subject AM Re: rangeslider 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 -
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