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From: Iaffaldano, Michelangelo
Date: Dec 21, 2012 12:34PM


It's not just that double-clicking is virtually unknown in the browser; it's also that "double click = remove" is unheard of in interaction design. It should be pretty straightforward to design a more usable and accessible alternative for such a basic function. Patterns abound.

Michelangelo Iaffaldano

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bohman [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: December 20, 2012 2:49 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] double click without mouse on web page

Double-clicking in a web context is extremely uncommon, so most users won't even think to do it. The uncommonness of double-clicking isn't strictly an accessibility issue. It's more of a usability issue. Single-clicking is definitely a convention in web contexts, and it's generally a bad idea to require users to do something that they're not used to doing, and that they probably won't even think to try to do.

But the inability to double-click with a keyboard is definitely an accessibility issue.

Usually it's best to stick with events triggered by focus (onfocus or
onblur) or single-click (onclick).

Paul Bohman, PhD
Director of Training
Deque Systems, Inc
703-646-0514, ext.121


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Here is the context in the web app. The user types into a text field
> and clicks an "Add" button at the right end of the text field. The
> text that they entered is then displayed in the next form field on the
> page. This can be done multiple times, thus building a "list" in the
> second form field. If the user wants to remove an item from the list, they select it
> and double-click to make it "disappear" from the text box (list). I hope
> my description is adequate. I'm describing it as a literally see it. I
> have been unable to make this happen with keyboard only, but then I'm
> not very keyboard savvy.
>
> Angela
>
>
> >On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Angela French wrote:
> >> Can anyone please tell me how a non-mouse-user would handle a
> >> double-
> >click requirement for an element on a webpage?
> >
> >There's no way to produce a double click event without a mouse. I can
> think
> >of no reason why double click would be necessary.
> >
> >Jared
> >> >> >list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>