Re: Vertical vs. horizontal scrolling on a mobile device

Thanks Jon, I'm glad you caught that.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 5:15 PM Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>
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> I agree that horizontal scrolling for reading lines of text is the issue.
> I would add however, that lack affordances for horizontal scrolling can be
> problematic as people may miss the presence of additional content.  I would
> also comment that if horizontal content contains many items and screen
> reader users are forced to navigate through all of it then there would need
> to be an easy way to bypass that content to access the content past it.
> That is – it’s very easy for a sighted user to skip over it but when screen
> reader users are forced to read through 50 horizontal items it can be
> problematic.
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> There are two kinds of scrolling: page or column scrolling, and inline
> scrolling. An app that goes from page to page or column to column as in
> ebooks, carousels and data tables is harmless. It is what happens inside
> the page or column content that is a barrier to reading. When you have to
> scroll to read information within a line of text then your scrolling causes
> the reader to lose context, forget past content on lines, have difficulty
> navigating from line to line and take between 50-150 times the number of
> scrolls that required by pure page or column scrolling.
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> So the problematic scrolling is not vertical or horizontal, but inline
> scrolling. Inline scrolling is bad vertically or horizontally. It is just a
> barrier to reading.
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> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:42 AM Garry Grant <garry@seoinc.com> wrote:
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> Mike,
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> I received this back from a blind user that is a bit above the average
> regarding technical aptitude. Here is the input he gave me. It's unedited,
> but it's directly from a daily user. If you need anything further, please
> don’t hesitate to reach out.
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> Hi, Mr. Grant, I received your email from Amber about scrolling on a
> mobile device. My personal preference is to have things laid out
> horizontally, and I use vertical scrolling on my iPhone to navigate
> different types of fields such as headings or links horizontal scrolling
> seems to work better from an accessibility standpoint. For me as a blind
> user but this does not always work well for other people one of the things
> about apps that drives me completely crazy is the fact that occasionally I
> have to flip pages using several fingers on my phone screen usually this is
> not always evident with the app.
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> A good example of this would be search results under Amazons app on the
> iPhone when you use VoiceOver to get to the next page you have to swipe up
> or down with three fingers to make the page scroll. From my perspective,
> most blind people keep swiping left or right with one finger to get to the
> next item. If it were me on a visual level, my phone usually wraps around
> from the first line to the second line as I keep swiping from left to right
> with my finger. Please note that on some devices when you activate the
> accessibility functions the jesters that a normally sighted person would
> use are now different due to the commands that the accessible software
> needs to operate. I hope this helps if you have any further questions
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> *From:* Mike Elledge <melledge@yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 29, 2019 6:16 AM
> *To:* w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: Vertical vs. horizontal scrolling on a mobile device
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> Thanks, Patrick!
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> On Thursday, March 28, 2019, 5:48:26 PM EDT, Patrick H. Lauke <
> redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 28/03/2019 18:36, Mike Elledge wrote:
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> > When is horizontal scrolling more accessible than vertical scrolling on
> > a *mobile device*? Always? Never? Sometimes?
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> I would argue (though can't back this up with any hard user research)
> that for users who can operate a touchscreen, horizontal scrolling (as
> long as it's not required to read over-long lines of content - so to
> flick between carousel slides that are never wider than the viewport
> width) is a lot more natural and easy to do (particularly on a
> smartphone in portrait mode) than on a desktop.
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> > I know that horizontal scrolling on a desktop is to be avoided, but
> > horizontal scrolling seems to be, from a design standpoint, acceptable
> > on a mobile device, to limit the length of page.
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> Assuming you  mean "to be avoided" in the context of 1.4.10 Reflow,
> there's probably some more nuance here (see
> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/668,
> <https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/668,%20>but I'd say it's a valid
> differentiation to make even on desktop). But yes, on a high level,
> horizontal scrolling is more unusual on desktop, and not that great
> since it can't be done easily/quickly just with a scrollwheel on a
> mouse, for instance.
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