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Re: Standard for star ratings interfaces?

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From: Judith.A.Blankman
Date: Jan 13, 2015 10:38AM

Thanks for all the responses thus far. I realized this morning after
reading them that I may have omitted an important detail.

This is a star rating for a mobile app, with a link to an app store (Apple
or Google, I assume) to write a review.

The stars are sufficiently sized. The set spans the width of the
smartphone. Tap target spacing is sufficient.

Does this change any of the recommendations? Is there something that
might/could be iOS and/or Android specific that would be helpful to know
about or more accessible?

Best,

Judith Blankman

Accessibility Strategist
Customer Experience

Wells Fargo Virtual Channels | 550 California Street, 2nd floor | San
Francisco, CA 94104
MAC A0122-020
Tel 415-947-6583 | Cell 415-601-1114 | Fax 415-974-7452

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On 1/13/15 6:38 AM, "Jonathan Avila" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> 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?
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>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.
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>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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>Jonathan Avila
>Chief Accessibility Officer
>SSB BART Group
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>Phone 703.637.8957
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