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> Adding hover-over alt text on a radio button form "Alt text" is text that isn't seen but serves the same purpose as what is seen for people with visual impai

> Adding hover-over alt text on a radio button form "Alt text" is text that isn't seen but serves the same purpose as what is seen for people with visual impairments (and web indexers). What you're describing sounds like a "tooltip." Maybe it would be even better to have it displayed all the time instead of mouse hover (no mobile device users without a cursor to hover with?)

cushychicken 5y ago
What you're describing sounds like a "tooltip." You're correct - "tooltip" is the correct word here. Maybe it would be even better to have it displayed all the time instead of mouse hover I started by displaying it all the time, but the form got unusably cramped. no mobile device users without a cursor to hover with? My software is solely for desktop users, by design. No teacher I have ever spoken with engages in this kind of work on their mobile phones. I had a user laugh at me during an interview for suggesting it. XD
- extra88 5y ago
  I was thinking more of iPad use. It sounds like the product lets them create a "bank" of reusable text. Certainly you'd want a proper keyboard for adding a lot of content to it but once that was done, part of its benefit is to reduce typing, making completion of a card on a mobile device more feasible. If the task involves a lot of bouncing back and forth between your thing and something else (like a school's student information system), yeah, only a desktop OS will do.
  - cushychicken 5y ago
    I appreciate the suggestion, but there is zero input from my userbase that suggests that making this work on a tablet would have positive ROI in terms of engineering time. Most teachers I've spoken to simply don't use tablets. (Based on my research, few of them even own tablets.) a school's student information system This is exactly why that's the case.

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> Adding hover-over alt text on a radio button form "Alt text" is text that isn't seen but serves the same purpose as what is seen for people with visual impai

by extra88 5y ago

cushychicken 5y ago
What you're describing sounds like a "tooltip." You're correct - "tooltip" is the correct word here. Maybe it would be even better to have it displayed all the time instead of mouse hover I started by displaying it all the time, but the form got unusably cramped. no mobile device users without a cursor to hover with? My software is solely for desktop users, by design. No teacher I have ever spoken with engages in this kind of work on their mobile phones. I had a user laugh at me during an interview for suggesting it. XD
- extra88 5y ago
  I was thinking more of iPad use. It sounds like the product lets them create a "bank" of reusable text. Certainly you'd want a proper keyboard for adding a lot of content to it but once that was done, part of its benefit is to reduce typing, making completion of a card on a mobile device more feasible. If the task involves a lot of bouncing back and forth between your thing and something else (like a school's student information system), yeah, only a desktop OS will do.
  - cushychicken 5y ago
    I appreciate the suggestion, but there is zero input from my userbase that suggests that making this work on a tablet would have positive ROI in terms of engineering time. Most teachers I've spoken to simply don't use tablets. (Based on my research, few of them even own tablets.) a school's student information system This is exactly why that's the case.