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Lack of availability of info on hover with touchscreen devices
Many aspects of Codidact pages have title text ("tool tip" / "hover text") that gives further detail/explanation when the mouse pointer is hovered over them. This useful information is unavailable on touchscreen devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
In those cases where the additional information is considered essential (that is, it does not need to be displayed permanently, but needs to be available to a user seeing an item for the first time, or who needs to be reminded), should we consider putting this information in a format that is available to touchscreen users? If so, should this be in the form of a touchscreen version of each item (so that on desktop you can hover, and on mobile you use the alternative method), or should there be just one consistent method that replaces hovering, for both desktop and mobile devices?
One approach that seems fairly common is to follow an item that needs occasional explanation with a question mark in a circle. This then allows either of:
- different approaches on different devices (hover over the question mark on desktop, touch the question mark on mobile)
- a single approach (click/touch the question mark - no behaviour on hover)
I suppose we could also keep the current behaviour, so that hovering over the item displays the same information as hovering over the question mark, which can also be displayed by clicking or touching the question mark.
Would something like that work here? It would be good to get an idea of what the community considers most useful, so it can be applied consistently throughout the site.
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