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Re: How to make a visual rating scale accessible

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From: whitneyq
Date: Jun 7, 2016 12:31PM

Hi David
We agree with you.  Trying to avoid exactly the experience you describe. And the css sprites actually look better.


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-------- Original message --------From: David Farough < <EMAIL REMOVED> > Date: 6/7/16 6:24 AM (GMT-08:00) To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to make a visual rating scale accessible
I know that the graphics may look better, but from an accessibility
point of view they are just awful.

For the sake of an interactive rating you could use a select. and when
presenting non interactively, you could use a read only edit.

I often get book reviews from audible where they present the rating
using a series of 5 graphics, all of which have an alt of "Rating
value".  To make matters worse, they present 3 different rating
categories, Over all, Story, and Performance.  You can guess   how
frustrating this gets listening to the screen reader repeat rating value
5 times between each category.

David Farough

Coordonnateur de l'accessibilité des applications, Services intégrés de
gestion des TI
Commission de la fonction publique du Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
<EMAIL REMOVED> Tél: 819-420-8418 Télécopieur :
819-420-8408

Application Accessibility Co-ordinator, Corporate IT Management
Public Service Commission of Canada / Government of Canada
<EMAIL REMOVED> Tel: 819-420-8418 / Fax: 819-420-8408


>>> "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 02:41 AM
Tuesday, June 07, 2016 >>>
Assuming it's all in a span and not interactive you can do <span
role="img" aria-label="3 out of 5">






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