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Re: Standard for star ratings interfaces?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 13, 2015 7:38AM

> 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?

I would recommend one control, such as a slider/range control or a button. It sounds like sliders are already being used so I'm all for that. My idea related to a button would be to create a spinner type control but I that would require a paradigm that isn't much used and thus would require custom coding that would need to be tested for accessibility support. I was not thinking of an image map but to a mouse user it would respond that way. For keyboard users it would be one tab stop. Consider that a page could contain many of these controls and thus if you sub divide the control into 5 parts you will create a page with a lot of superfluous information that just gets in the way.

Keep in mind that any control would need to correctly identify the current position with the group such as 3 of 5 stars.

Jonathan

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