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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Mar 1, 2019 3:30AM

Very good points Glen - thank you. I think I could easily pass these
under the "essential" criterion. I predict a happy customer moment :-)

Thanks all.

On 01/03/2019, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I don't like the slider *not* updating as it's being dragged. Whether for
> volume, or a seek bar, or for a color change. For the latter, see WebAIM's
> contrast checker,
> https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/#maincontent.
> If you're a mouse user, you can drag the slider for the color and see the
> color box change and the pass/fail options update. As a keyboard user, I
> can use left/right arrows to see the changes. If you press and hold an
> arrow key, it's kind of like dragging the slider, except you can't
> escape/undo it. On firefox, I can hit escape while dragging with the mouse
> and it'll cancel the change. Neither chrome nor IE support that.
>
> Keep in mind that 2.5.2 has a list of "at least one of the following is
> true". The canceling of the mouse drag is just one of them. If you don't
> support canceling, then perhaps you can satisfy one of the others. In the
> case of a volume or seek or color bar, I would argue that the fourth bullet
> point applies - "Essential: Completing the function on the down-event is
> essential". Allowing the user to hear the volume change as you're dragging
> could be considered "essential". Seeing a color box change and pass/fail
> options update could be considered "essential". It might be a subjective
> argument, but that's nothing new.
>
> Glen
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