Form Slider UI Magnification for Accessible Input Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interfaces in information handling systems do not adequately consider accessibility for users with visual disabilities, leading to an inequitable user experience.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a form slider interface with a slide guide element and selection element to adjust magnification levels of input fields dynamically based on user input, allowing for seamless navigation and enhanced visibility of required fields.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If magnification of input fields is increased to improve visibility for users with visual disabilities, then accessibility is improved, but the overall layout and navigation of the user interface becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic magnification where input fields are magnified on-demand as the selection element approaches them, rather than maintaining static high magnification across the entire interface. This allows the interface to adapt its complexity level based on user interaction state, providing enhanced visibility only when needed while maintaining overall layout simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies magnification locally to specific input fields that are currently being interacted with, rather than uniformly across the entire interface. The selection element triggers magnification of the adjacent input field, creating a focused view that enhances accessibility for the current interaction point while leaving other areas at normal scale
2Measurement precision
If magnification levels are adjusted dynamically for each input field, then navigation accuracy is improved, but the system response time and processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-positions the selection element to automatically trigger magnification of the next input field in sequence before the user needs to interact with it. This preliminary magnification action ensures that when the user arrives at an input field, it is already at the appropriate magnification level, eliminating delays and improving navigation accuracy without significant time loss
Solution Approach 2:
The patent maintains continuous magnification states as the selection element moves through the form, ensuring that magnification is applied seamlessly from one input field to the next without interruption or reset. This continuous adjustment keeps the user in a state of optimal visibility throughout the navigation process, improving both accuracy and efficiency
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AI summary
Managing a magnification of an user interface of a display of an IHS including generating a form slider interface that includes i) a slide guide element and ii) a selection element; integrating the form slider interface into an UI such that the form slider interface is adjacent input fields; detecting first user input indicating translation of the selection element from an initial position to a first position adjacent a first input field; adjusting a magnification of the first input field from a first magnification level to a second magnification level; detecting second user input indicating translation of the selection element from the first position to a second position adjacent a second input field; adjusting the magnification of the first input field from the second magnification level to the first magnification level, and adjusting a magnification of the second input field from the first magnification level to the second magnification level.