rangeslider

[Joseph Scheuhammer]

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

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