Slider: Add touch event support for better mobile interaction

Open nikunj8866 opened this issue 5 months ago • 1 comments

Reference: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63208

Description

The slider currently lacks touch interaction support on mobile devices, making it difficult for users to navigate between steps using touch gestures. This limitation affects the feature's usability and accessibility on touchscreen devices.

Screencast

https://screenrec.com/share/W1clQoqGSR

Jul 23 '25 05:07 nikunj8866

Thanks for the report. We're avoiding adding new features to components at this stage of jQuery UI, but this one seems important and the patch is not that big, so I'll look into it.

Aug 06 '25 17:08 mgol