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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Jun 27, 2018 8:26PM

Hello,
If we are going to look at non semantic interfaces, Audio Games allow for
drag and drop functionality. Most effective are strategy games where you
need to move objects around the grid. You can either press enter on the
object you want to move and have a sound play letting you know you are
dragging the object and press enter to set it down in another square, or
have the user press something like shift and the arrow keys to move the
object to an adjacent square.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> We have just won a testing project, part of which involves drag and drop
> functionality in online tests exactly as Guy described. When this thread
> appeared I hoped (without any expectation) that someone might have cracked
> the problem by now, but it seems not.
>
> In our case the problem is even worse because when one item is moved, all
> the ones below it move too. I haven't started work on it yet, but my
> initial thoughts are that it's just not possible to make it accessible so I
> expect to have to experiment with other means of interaction while trying
> to maintain something like the existing appearance and functionality.
>
> Unlike the PowerPoint example, the tests could be designed without
> dragging at all. I am considering using comboboxes, each of which contains
> all the answers, but when an answer is selected in one combobox it is made
> unselectable in all the others.
>
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
>
>
>