[Contrib: Evaluation System] block items

[Ellen Yu Borkowski]

Gonzalo

Alignment is way off on my Mac viewing the website using FF3.04 on Mac OS 10.6.2.  With that said, I like what you've done in terms of the hovering over a choice and seeing a header get highlighted.  This, of course, only works well when you can actually see the item labels in your survey.  If you have a long block of items the labels can be off the screen.

As for the NA option, we are using the horizontal format now and have been since the start so our NA is at the front before the actual answers.  We would want the NA to REMAIN where it is now for consistency.  We do not use the vertical display format.

Ellen


On Mar 15, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Silverio, Gonzalo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Many thanks for the feedback on the previous email on vertical and
> horizontal display of multiple choice and multiple answer items.
> 
> This email is requesting feedback to some proposed changes to block items
> (colored and not colored).
> 
> Please see (with FF 3.5, working on oddities in other browsers later):
> 
>    http://www.umich.edu/~gsilver/evalsys-work/block/
> 
> The suggested changes attempt to address the following issues:
> 
> 1. General alignment of items, and item selection controls
> 
> 2. Clarifying visually the relationship of item label, item controls, and
> item control labels:
> 
> a. what question am answering (item row is highlighted)
> b. what are the choices (choice headers are highlighted on hover)
> c. what choice am considering (choice label is displayed as a tooltip and a
> halo is added around the choice on hover)
> d. what choice I have selected (halo surrounds selected control)
> 
> 3. Making the view more accessible. An onload script rearranges parts of the
> DOM of the block item so that a label with a value copied from the choice
> control header is added to each control. Additionally each control gets a
> title attribute with the same value. This is not perfect but represents an
> improvement for screen reader users since each control now has a descriptor.
> 
> -----------------
> 
> I am aware that placement of the NA (as in the MC and MA item types) is a
> matter of importance to different institutions. Does it come after or before
> the choices? This is by way of an informal straw poll to see if we should
> put an effort into making this settable.
> 
> Long term it may be a good idea to rewrite parts of the producer so that
> there is a logical relationship between the DOM and the semantics of the
> item list. This would make the rendering more robust, maintainable and
> extensible. If there is any interest I can supply the ideal response markup
> if needed, taking into account all the permutations.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    -Gonzalo
> 
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