https://vaccines.digitalhealth.gov.au/checkin

On a smart phone (mine's an Android), which is how this is typically
used, how does one change today's date into one's date of birth, without
swiping back on the month hundreds of times?

(One answer is to be a teenager, but otherwise?)

Sylvia.

Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:

> https://vaccines.digitalhealth.gov.au/checkin
>
> On a smart phone (mine's an Android), which is how this is typically
> used, how does one change today's date into one's date of birth,
> without swiping back on the month hundreds of times?

Once you get the month view, tap on the 2021 on top left of that popup
for a scrollable year selection.

Not exactly obvious. Nothing wrong with entering a date of birth...

On 12-Jul-21 6:01 pm, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
>
>> https://vaccines.digitalhealth.gov.au/checkin
>>
>> On a smart phone (mine's an Android), which is how this is typically
>> used, how does one change today's date into one's date of birth,
>> without swiping back on the month hundreds of times?
>
> Once you get the month view, tap on the 2021 on top left of that popup
> for a scrollable year selection.
>
> Not exactly obvious. Nothing wrong with entering a date of birth...
>

Yes.

I tried a lot of tapping of random places, but the year number is a
small target, and I didn't find it at the time.

I've sent the government an appropriate criticism of the practice of
just assuming that everyone knows in detail how to use an Android phone.
I dare say they'll file it under NFA.

Sylvia.

Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
> On 12-Jul-21 6:01 pm, Anssi Saari wrote:
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> https://vaccines.digitalhealth.gov.au/checkin
>>>
>>> On a smart phone (mine's an Android), which is how this is typically
>>> used, how does one change today's date into one's date of birth,
>>> without swiping back on the month hundreds of times?
>>
>> Once you get the month view, tap on the 2021 on top left of that popup
>> for a scrollable year selection.
>>
>> Not exactly obvious. Nothing wrong with entering a date of birth...
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> I tried a lot of tapping of random places, but the year number is a
> small target, and I didn't find it at the time.

Yes, very small -- and with absolutely no visual hint that it just so
happens to be a control that does something.

> I've sent the government an appropriate criticism of the practice of
> just assuming that everyone knows in detail how to use an Android
> phone. I dare say they'll file it under NFA.

You should have filed the complaint with Google, as Google is the one
who made the dialog. The app. put out by the Australian Govt. is
likely just using the standard Android built in date picker.

You can blame Google's material design (which, translated, means: "no
visual hinting that anything is a touch target - and only colors that
are so close in contrast as to be almost indistinguishable being
available for use).

On 13-Jul-21 2:40 am, Rich wrote:

> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>> I've sent the government an appropriate criticism of the practice of
>> just assuming that everyone knows in detail how to use an Android
>> phone. I dare say they'll file it under NFA.
>
> The app. put out by the Australian Govt. is
> likely just using the standard Android built in date picker.

It is, but that was a design decision too. They should have looked at
the date picker, realised it was no good for an application that people
are almost compelled to use, and done something else.

Even a "Are you having trouble setting the year? Here's how..." on the
page would have been an improvement.

Sylvia.

On 13/07/2021 00:16, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 13-Jul-21 2:40 am, Rich wrote:
>
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>>> I've sent the government an appropriate criticism of the practice of
>>> just assuming that everyone knows in detail how to use an Android
>>> phone.  I dare say they'll file it under NFA.
>>
>> The app.  put out by the Australian Govt.  is
>> likely just using the standard Android built in date picker.
>
> It is, but that was a design decision too. They should have looked at
> the date picker, realised it was no good for an application that people
> are almost compelled to use, and done something else.
>
> Even a "Are you having trouble setting the year? Here's how..." on the
> page would have been an improvement.

Perhaps they should start a countdown timer when the app is first
launched? It starts at 2021 and decrements once per second. When you
(eventually!) get to the date picker it uses the current timer value as
the default year of birth.

;-)

--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey, England