[Contrib: Evaluation System] ADA compliance and EVALSYS

Silverio, Gonzalo gsilver at umich.edu
Tue Aug 24 10:37:06 PDT 2010


Hey,

Thanks for the explanation Aaron. Makes perfect sense.

Removing the ghost groups would really simplify the UI (even if you cannot see them they are there), make it a lot more accessible and make large questionnaire screens snappier. Would need to proceed with care.

	-Gonzalo

On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Silverio, Gonzalo <gsilver at umich.edu> wrote:
>> 2) Most of EVALSYS radio groupings rely on the superimposition of a "real" group over a "fake" group. Not sure why this is, but this would need to be addressed as well. The fake one needs to be made invisible to screen readers.
> 
> That was done to correct issues with Safari and webkit rendering (they
> did not space out the radio buttons correctly) back in.... 2005 or
> 2006 I think. In other words, it is probably no longer required but at
> the time this hack was the only way to do it (I got the solution from
> some site like quirksmode though I don't recall exactly anymore).
> 
> :-)
> -AZ



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