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accessibility_fail2010-09-08 05:45 am
sophie) wrote in accessibility_fail2010-09-08 05:45 am
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LiveJournal Edit Tags page
I wouldn't normally put an LJ fail in here, but this one is so outrageous that I feel I have to, and it's the result of a deliberate design decision.
If you have a LiveJournal, try going to one of your entries and clicking to edit the tags on that entry (that is, using the specific Edit Tags screen, not the generic Edit Entry screen). Then try to select tags to use.
It looks like they tried to make it easier for mouse users by making it so that you can click a tag and have the others remain selected when you do so. But since it's a listbox, it normally would clear the rest of the listbox selection when you do this. So it seems that they made it so that it remembers the items that were selected before, so that when a new item is selected, they then rebuild the selections in the list box based on what the previous selections were.
But if use the keyboard instead of the mouse, you're screwed. Just try to navigate that thing with a keyboard without accidentally selecting or deselecting tags that you didn't want to select or deselect. (I haven't tried any other means of input, so I can't comment on those.) At least it doesn't auto-save, so you can just close the window when you realise that it's pointless.
(I suspect that the page causes problems for people on any OS that doesn't automatically clear the rest of the listbox when you click an item.)
If you have a LiveJournal, try going to one of your entries and clicking to edit the tags on that entry (that is, using the specific Edit Tags screen, not the generic Edit Entry screen). Then try to select tags to use.
It looks like they tried to make it easier for mouse users by making it so that you can click a tag and have the others remain selected when you do so. But since it's a listbox, it normally would clear the rest of the listbox selection when you do this. So it seems that they made it so that it remembers the items that were selected before, so that when a new item is selected, they then rebuild the selections in the list box based on what the previous selections were.
But if use the keyboard instead of the mouse, you're screwed. Just try to navigate that thing with a keyboard without accidentally selecting or deselecting tags that you didn't want to select or deselect. (I haven't tried any other means of input, so I can't comment on those.) At least it doesn't auto-save, so you can just close the window when you realise that it's pointless.
(I suspect that the page causes problems for people on any OS that doesn't automatically clear the rest of the listbox when you click an item.)