Bugzilla – Bug 11644
special-character toggle button should show character examples, not up-shift-arrow
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:16:31 UTC
This is one of those bugs that's hard to explain without a reference screen (Noah? =)? Apologies if this is a duplicate bug, can't find one though. From the QWERTY keyboard version of "Enter Your Password," clicking the "123-&" button brings up a keypad containing numeric characters and some special characters (@ $ / + etc). On this keyboard, a user can also toggle to a second set of special characters using the "shift" (up arrow) button. We shouldn't be using an up-arrow here. We should be using a button that contains character examples of the set that will be revealed when you click on it (something like "[<;" for example). Toggling back the OTHER way should show a similar button with different characters (such as "#$?"). Two main reasons for this: 1. shift is the wrong metaphor in this case. These characters aren't accessed on a normal keyboard by pressing one of the corresponding "swapped" characters and holding shift (while on abc/ABC characters, this IS the case). 2. discoverability. The up arrow doesn't tell me anything about what pressing the button will do. Making this change should really improve the usability of this keyboard type and follows pretty standard touchscreen keyboard conventions.
Created attachment 5038 [details] Ref artwork - Keyboard more symbols button
Created attachment 5039 [details] Ref artwork - Keyboard symbols button proposal
Created attachment 5040 [details] Ref artwork - Keyboard more symbols button proposal
fixed, r5167 the screen refs had ( on one keyboard and ) on another, which seemed wrong. So I put ( and ) on the second keyboard and cherry-picked * from the second keyboard back to the first keyboard to make everything fit. I think we're done...
Created attachment 5042 [details] updated numeric keyboards with toggle buttons
Ben good catch/improvement! I'm good if everyone else is?
Yup, looks great