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October 2009 blog entries:
Sliders go into final beta testing
15 Oct 2009 — Our new interactive question types, dubbed "sliders", have now gone into final beta testing, and we are looking forward to making them available to users in the next week or two. We apologise for the delay in making them available, but we think that all the work we've put into them will mean they will give better data than any other sliders currently available.
We have also been testing them throroughly so that they will be as robust as possible on a variety of browsers, as well as accessibility-compliant. For instance, our sliders will be keyboard-controllable, so that respondents who cannot use a mouse can still interact with them. Flash-based online survey solutions that can only be used with a mouse are not accessible to such users.
Additionally, if the survey respondent is using assistive technology (for example text-to-speech or large fonts or no styles because they are visually impaired) the sliders will if necessary display drop-downs or number-entry boxes instead of sliders.
Our development work has also solved some major problems around the difference between default values of the slider control and active selection of a default vlaue. Different data values and visual icons are used to signify different responses (or lack of them) and therefore make data more reliable.
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