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Re: Select drop-downs in Voiceover on iPhone

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Apr 23, 2013 3:58PM

Detlev Fischer wrote:

> The blind tester could not get anywhere using the native select (the iOS
> 'fruit machne' widget) but told us that it did work in other cases on his
> iPhone.


A part of it might be labelling, so that people know it is a selection
widget (the example we tested was missing explicit labels). The other part
is definitely that you can't do what normally works: swipe right for the
next option.


> Incidently, there was just a link shared out there on twitter by @AlexOnUX
> on why selects aren't a good choice for navigation on mobile which I'd like
> to pass on: http://buff.ly/ZiDzH4
>

I generally agree with those points, but in this case it was not for
navigation, it was for selecting one option among many, and a
select-drop-down is appropriate.

Cheers,

-Alastair