Disambiguation of path-based gesture versus dragging movement #4843
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* Remove the confusing "intermediate"/"midpoint" patch that was added mostly as a way to retcon/patch in applicability to sliders/carousels into pointer gestures, once the normative wording was already baked in and it turned out to be too difficult to make it apply to dragging sliders. * Emphasise that for gestures, the end-point (and sometimes even the start-point) don't actually matter so much as the direction (and potentially speed) * Repurpose the "wiggly line from point 1 to point 2" to actually illustrate dragging movement, and move the two illustrations (straight line and wiggly line) to the section that tries to explain the difference between dragging and path-based gestures * Use some consistency: start-point and end-point (not "start point", or "endpoint" etc, it was all a bit mix and match before)
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Looks very solid, great work, @patrickhlauke |
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Just some editorial comments - the substance is there.
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thank you @detlevhfischer ... good to get some more of the cruft (most of it was existing text I think) out of those docs. I'll have a look through and make tweaks |
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This PR is a long-overdue disambiguation that removes the half-hearted (half-a**ed) retconning attempt to make pointer gestures apply to sliders at the time before we had dragging movements. (yes, this may mean that for 2.1, sliders MAY not be covered by pointer gestures anymore, but even with the additions we had, they weren't per se...so this doesn't actually change anything normatively in my mind, other than remove the weird points of overlap and confusion).
In understanding for pointer gestures:
Preview: https://deploy-preview-4843--wcag2.netlify.app/understanding/pointer-gestures
In understanding for dragging movements:
Preview: https://deploy-preview-4843--wcag2.netlify.app/understanding/dragging-movements
Closes #3344
Supersedes #3148
Closes #2684