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Re: Need for Increment Buttons?

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From: glen walker
Date: Dec 14, 2018 6:57PM

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:30 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On 14/12/2018 22:28, glen walker wrote:
> > With VoiceOver, even though it tells you you can swipe up or down to
> adjust
> > the value, you have to change your rotor first. There's and "adjust
> value"
> > rotor setting and once that's set, then swiping up/down will change the
> > value.
>
> By default (at least in my experience/my testing), VO/iOS automatically
> switches to "adjust value" when you focus on an <input type="range">, so
> there's no need to manually change the anything in the rotor first.
>

That's what I tested on, iOS. The rotor is not on "adjust value". I have
to change it before swiping up/down. The difference might be if you've
changed the rotor before. That is, I usually have my rotor set to
"vertical navigation" so when I navigate to a range slider, my rotor is
still "vertical navigation". It would be annoying if it suddenly changed
to "adjust value" and then as I'm swiping down vertically, all of a sudden
I start changing the value of a slider rather than continuing to navigate
down.

I think it's a bug in iOS that it says I can swipe up/down to adjust the
value without iOS verifying what my rotor is set to. If the rotor isn't
changed automatically, then it should tell me to set my rotor to "adjust
value" and then I can swipe up/down.

Glen