larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

I need bigger, easier to hit, checkboxes and radios. If that is not
possible, and it appears not, is there a way to map the inside of a
table cell to 'select'. Ideas? I suppose I could use images and
implement the behavior with js. I'm fishing here. Thank you for any
ideas.

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

oldyork90 wrote:No, you don't.
<input type="checkbox" name="..." id="foo"><label for="foo">...</label>
But you don't want to do that.
You could have RTFFAQ, RTFM, and STFW before.

<http://jibbering.com/faq/>


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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
wrote:Yes, I do.

Answer is use your own images. Thank you pointed one.

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

oldyork90 wrote:Hardly, given zoom effects.
That may be your answer, and IIUC it would be an unwise one. For you would
assume that such a pseudo-control would be accessible when it is not.
What for?


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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

On Aug 26, 10:52 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
wrote:Zoom is not the answer for all things. Proportion is one.

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:Perhaps that's why this exact scenario is described in section 14.5.5 on
pages 271-275 of O'Reilly's "Javascript The Definitive Guide". I must
have missed the "Don't try this at home, folks".

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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

oldyork90 wrote:It would seem foolishness is inverse proportional to experience.

Please learn to quote.


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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

Is there an accessible option for a multi-state checkbox?

Beez

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

Beez wrote:The answer depends on what states you are talking about.


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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

PointedEars wrote:Touche. More appropriately, a tri-state. True, Partially True,
False.

Example scenario:

[ ] Folder
[ ] file2.ext
[ ] file3.ext
[ ] file4.ext

If one of the files are selected, Folder is partially selected
(Partially True).

[o] Folder
[x] file2.ext
[ ] file3.ext
[x] file4.ext

Beez

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

PointedEars wrote:Is there an accessible way to do this using javascript?

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

Beez wrote:A technical newsgroup like this is more like a think tank than a support
forum, so pressing the issue will hardly get you a better answer. Some
questions need more time to think about. And I/we do have a real life.


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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

In comp.lang.javascript message <65dee9ee-cd14-48a3-824d-f6493a3ad406@z6
6g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:58:05, Beez
<kbiesbrock@gmail.composted:
The following code, OK as is in IE & FF but not Opera, indicates that
there is. The image is clickable, can be resized by code, and could be
replaced by code. Therefore, what you want can be built from images.

<img src="graphics/fig-0.gif" name=IM onClick="alert(0)">
<button onClick="IM.width*=1.3">
<button onClick="IM.src='graphics/fig-8.gif'">


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re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

PointedEars wrote:In no way did I suppose this ng was a "support forum" in its truest
application -- however, the act of helping others is, at some level,
"support".

My point in asking the question was certainly not to press the issue.
In other ngs, and one of mine in this, questions or responses go
unanswered and so this was more of a *nudge*. Understandably, you
have a life; as do I. Mine revolves around this single question (just
kidding).

Knowing somebody is thinking about this topic is fine, but how am I to
know that it didn't just get lost if nobody replies?

It seems response times in most other topics are quicker. In the
future I'll remember to be more patient. My sincere apologies.

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

oldyork90 wrote:<snip>

Is it not possible? Why/how does it appear not? What did you try, and
where did you try it? (And for that matter where and why do you need it,
as users with accessibility requirements may be satisfying their needs
by other means?) If you are wrong about this then the javascript
question may never arise.

Richard.

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

In comp.lang.javascript message <cebd688c-60e7-41cd-ba4f-158f87bb6d59@34
g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:27:38, Beez
<kbiesbrock@gmail.composted:<FAQENTRYNewcomers should ignore all that Thomas Lahn writes, except
where it deals only with coding in JavaScript. The latter is generally
correct in principle, though often containing error due to excessive
haste; but it will frequently be incomprehensible to the newcomer.

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Read 'The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner'

re: larger radio/checkbox or mapping?

Dr J R Stockton wrote on 29 aug 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:
<FAQENTRY>
&lt;FAQENTRY>s should be closed, as oldtimers should know.
</FAQENTRY>

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