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"John Travoltage" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/john-travoltage
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Should the appendages animate with keyboard? #292

Open jessegreenberg opened 6 years ago

jessegreenberg commented 6 years ago

@mbarlow12 recommended this but I wanted to make sure there was an issue to document or bring up at a future meeting. Right now the appendages "snap" to the angle that is mapped to the AccessibleSlider value. As an enhancement they could animate/slide to the new location. We haven't observed any confusion around this in interviews so this would mostly be cosmetic. But maybe the leg would look more like it is rubbing on the rug. And going from "home" to "end" for both appendages would drag along the rug/doorknob.

jessegreenberg commented 6 years ago

We discussed this in a11y meetings today. @emily-phet said that this feature would be nice, but no issues have come out of the current behavior for alternative input. This is not something that can be added in the upcoming release with sonification, but maybe in a future release this could be added.