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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Sep 7, 2018 2:11AM

Thanks Glen. Neutral is an answer in itself, so I think the slider
would have to be disabled for a question to remain unanswered.

For now we've managed to get agreement that all options should be
labelled. I think this will raise its ugly head again in the future,
in which case I'll make an argument for two different question types
with determinate and inexact answers, and will use a slider for the
inexact ones.

Cheers, Isabel

On 06/09/2018, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Then it depends if your questions can really be answered using a Likert
> scale and have discrete answers, or if the answers can be continuous.
> You'd have to decide that first. Does someone have to be 4-neutral or
> 3-a-lttle-sad, or can they be somewhere between those?
>
> If the answer can be anywhere, then a slider would have to be used. I
> guess all the answers would be initially neutral. But then you're back to
> where you started and how do you unanswer a question. This starts getting
> into the UX of the design as opposed to the accessibility of the design
> (but, yes, I know the two are intertwined).
>
> One idea is to have all your sliders on neutral and have a disabled "clear
> answer" button next to each one. The button becomes enabled once the
> slider value changes. If you select the button, it puts the slider back on
> neutral (which is not the same as the user putting the slider back on
> neutral) and then disables itself.
>
> But then that adds another issue, selecting a button that disables itself.
> Do you leave the focus on the disabled element and deal with the focus
> indicator disappearing and the weirdness that you can tab off the disabled
> element but can't tab back to it?
>
> You could use a checkbox to clear the answer so you don't have to worry
> about disabling it but that feels a little awkward. Is it a checkbox with
> "clear answer" as the label, and when you check it, the slider moves back
> to neutral? Then if you move the slider, the checkbox gets unchecked
> automatically?
>
> I think the enabled/disabled clear button indicates what happened better
> than the checkbox does, despite the awkwardness of clicking on a button
> that disables itself.
>
> That's why I leave UX to people that know what they're doing :-)
>
> Glen
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