On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 13:29 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > (I have a familiar feeling about this problem. There may be some > accessibility impact or something else awkward I cannot quite put my > finger on.
The accessibility impact is probably that you need to programatically associate any external unit indicator (be it static text or a dropdown) with the text field, so that screenreaders will present the value and the unit to users as somewhat of a single entity, rather than as unrelated controls. Since the text box will most likely have a descriptive label as well, this will often mean associating at least two other controls with the same text box, which isn't technically-challenging for our screenreaders to handle AFAIK, but I'd imagine it can't help but add a little complexity to the task for the user. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
