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Re: How to make accessible flowcharts?

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Feb 7, 2019 4:51AM

This is great. But what if there were more than one connection leading
out from the same direction? Would be fun to try creating a prototype
as an HTML application to start with.

On 07/02/2019, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> David,
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> That is really outside of the box. This reminds me of a discussion I had
> with a co-worker. On the iPad or iPhone, we did discuss the ability of using
> the touch screen of a means of working out a flow chart. In our case it was
> a network diagram of routers and switches. Never got to the stage of finding
> someone who could code a prototype to see if it was even possible. The high
> overview on how we thought it could work:
>
> 1. Diagram is shown.
> 2. left and right swipe would take them to a switch or router.
> 3. Description would inform them of the next hop devices.
> If a device was to the left, then they would perform a right to left swipe.
> If the device was to the right, they would perform a left to right swipe.
> If it was above. A bottom to up swipe.
> And so on.
> We even tossed around the ability of using the finger to be dragged around
> the screen providing textual description and sounds to inform if they are
> following a connection or on a device.
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