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Re: Standard for star ratings interfaces?

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From: Judith.A.Blankman
Date: Jan 12, 2015 3:58PM

Jonathan,

Is it like a mini image map or something? I'm unclear how one sets up a
button to cycle through a selection.

Or should it be a row of 5 buttons, no list markup?

On 1/12/15 2:37 PM, "Jonathan Avila" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> I'm curious whether there is a standard treatment or recommendation for
>>a star ratings interface on a mobile device
>
>Five separate stars and all the list markup may be too verbose. One
>option would be to use a button that allows you to cycle through 1,2,3,4,
>or 5 stars. The accessible name of the button would be the current star
>rating. An aria-description might be used to explain to the user how to
>cycle through the options and aria-live could be used to announced the
>new state on interaction.
>
>Jonathan
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