[Bug 163875] provide a11y access to panel controller

[Maciej Pilichowski]

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------- Additional Comments From bluedzins wp pl  2008-06-12 11:20 -------
> > Aaron, I see that KDE4 is looking (visually) stunning, but look is not 
> everything, I am forced to risk RSI this means the whole design is wrong. 
> because clicking single pixels is so much better for RSI?

One question -- do you have RSI? I have.

It is much better for me, to click inside the first tab, enter value, 100, press tab, enter value 80, and press enter. Voila, configuring finished. Please, measure my time and effort. Minimal!

Now compare this to current UI, I have to pinpoint this small triangle, oh, wait, not that one, this one, press and _hold_ the LMB for the whole time (pain for RSI), move the mouse holding LMB, and release it. Oh, no, my hand just was shaking a bit, so I have to repeat it, the panel is too narrow, and so on.

You can't beat the direct input in terms of a11y. No matter how you will try. Because user does not have to hold anything for longer period of time, nothing is depended of his/her skills/reflexes/muscles/accuracy.

Edit box has clear precise meaning, and it is a healthy way providing any input.

Btw. other users will benefit too -- because they could drag the triangles and see what the width is (numeric value), so they could set the estimate for width, and then fine tune the value.

> it's 03:15 (yes, a.m.) 

Ok, no problem. Go to sleep, we'll talk later :-)

A11Y TEST:
provide slider and editbox: ask older, young, healthy, handicapped people to enter value 1584 using slider and then edit-box.