Intervention time slider is too hard to drag w touchpad on Chrome
Maybe it is my Windows laptop’s touchpad, but I find the intervention slider from the chrome extension very hard to drag without mouse, when using just the touchpad. I am not talking about the size of the circle, which is small, which is a good thing, requiring some effort to select. But once you have clicked the dot and try to slide it to the right, the right index has to follow a very, very straight line on the touchpad. This is easy to do with an accurate 600dpi+ mouse (I’d argue even effortless) - but hard even with a very sensitive touchpad with adjusted settings. It is hard to keep an exact straight line while pressing to keep it selected. Sometimes I keep the line straight during dragging but the mousepad clicks back and thus deselects.
So I got one idea, but this probably makes it too easy to select a time: introducing arrow key support for the slider. But instead of making it a continous press, where one long right arrow key selects the complete time range in one go, it could be made incremental only. So in order to select 10 out of 15 minutes of the slider, the user would have to press 5 times (one arrow key is 2 minutes) or 10 times (one arrow key is literally one minute). I don’t know if Chrome extensions can detect touchpad vs mouse, because then it would be easier to implement a fix. Or maybe a specific touchpad gesture could be set (like swiping two fingers from left to right) - but this could conflict with Windows Gestures. The Android app intervention slider is great though, but that’s touchscreen tech, not touchpad tech.
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exazettabit
May 6
•Merged request
•1 vote
Allow pressing right arrow key to complete slider for better accessibility
What actually happens
I find the intervention slider from the OneSec chrome extension drag-the-circle across-the-line animation with any touchpad (I tried my other laptop as well) or without a premium 1500 dpi mouse. Because you have to keep pressing while dragging to keep it selected. It is not simply holding down a mouse button, but pressing down on the whole touchpad while moving over it from left to right. The touchpad always clicks back and deselects the whole thing.
Which means you need a great mouse to complete the OneSec slider, or switch to an android phone or tablet.
Proposed solution:
Add right arrow key support for the slider. Long-pressing the arrow key will increase the amounts of minutes to select and as developers you can make this as slow as you would like. Left arrow key could be added to decrease the amount of minutes. And if a person thinks too long about their choice, the slider could reset after 10 seconds.
I think a lot of people might benefit from this accessibility feature on the desktop chrome extension as most laptops do not have touchpad screens and not everyone has a premium 1500 dpi mouse.