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This branch (1.2) had changes related to the following applied:

• fix for iOS 13 Full Screen, see phetsims/phet-core#64
• phetsims/scenery#1006

Presumably one or more of these changes is likely to have been applied after the last RC version, and should be spot-checked by QA in the next RC (or if it was ready for a production release, an additional spot-check RC should be created).

Per @kathy-phet's request in phetsims/qa#295 I am making issues in each published sim repo detailing the pointer areas and usability of sims on phone sized screens. Done on an iPhone 7 iOS 12 device.

Potential Difficulties Noticed:
None seen

Screenshots:

Created for tracking commits, etc.

@ariel-phet Can you provide some guidance on how to arrange this?

In last Tuesday's keyboard navigation meeting, we discussed adding keyboard navigation to this sim (and Area Model: Decimals), ideally prior to final deployment. See list below.

It seemed like the four-way moveable object and the partition sliders would be the most challenging features for implementation, and @jessegreenberg had estimated these to be pretty straightforward to do. Is it possible @mbarlow12 and @jonathanolson could make some progress on this while @jessegreenberg is away? I'm just hoping to get this into the sims prior to deployment, no other rush from an a11y perspective.

Navigation order and element type:
Multiply Screen
Grid

• Grid pull knob, four-way moveable object
• Show numbers in Grid, checkbox

Panels

• Factors box, button
• Factor, number spinners (or pickers - whichever is correct)
• Product box, button
• Erase, Button
• Grid size, radio buttons
• Reset All, button

Partition Screen
Grid

• Pull knob, four-way moveable object
• Horizontal Partition, slider with changing input range to match grid size
• (Vertical Partition, slider with changing input range to match grid size)
• Vertical or Horizontal partition options, Radio buttons
• Grid lines Checkbox

Panels

• Factors box, button
• Factor, number spinners (or pickers - whichever is correct)
• Product box, button
• Partial product radio buttons
• Erase, Button
• Grid size radio buttons
• Reset All, button

Design

• Sim folder and design doc created (Date: 06/28/2017)
  • Create sim folder in PhET Sim Design Folder using phet-docs account
  • Place design doc in the sim folder
• Sim suggestions doc reviewed
• Learning goals and standards identified (Date: 06/30/2017)
• Design concept complete (Date: 01/11/2018)
• Wireframes complete (Date: 01/11/2018)
• Mockups complete (Date: 01/26/2018)
  • Mockups checked for colorblind and greyscale
• Features for PhET-iO discussion N/A
• Interviews complete (Date: 02/16/2018)
  • Results reported to team
  • Notes pasted into design doc
  • Back-up of interviews
• Lead designer "sign off" (Date: 02/20/2018)
  • Performance acceptable
  • Carefully review ?showPointerAreas
  • No new feature requests
• Pre-publication items
  • Auxilary screenshots (up to 3 additional)
  • Accessories (keywords, categories, description, learning goals, related sims, NSDL)
  • Teacher Guide created, uploaded, and added to sim design folder
  • Add an activity
  • Sim primer draft
• Post-publication items
  • Sim primer (create issue, publish ideally within 1 month of live sim)

Implementation

• Repository created (Date: 01/12/2018)
  • Simulation added to responsible_dev.md
  • simula-rasa used to create project skeleton
  • README.md created using grunt unpublished-readme
  • Collaborators added (such as QA team, designers, etc)
  • standard GitHub label set applied
  • repository added to perennial/data/active-repos (then grunt generate-data in perennial and check in)
• Development started (Date: 01/12/2018)
• Sim is "feature complete" (Date: 01/12/2018)
• Code review completed (Date: 06/29/2018)
• Pre-publication items
  • Main screenshot (2048x1344, PNG, 32-bit color, browser chrome stripped)
  • Verify credits
• Published (Date: 4/24/2018)
  • README.md updated using grunt published-README (in master and release branch)
  • Mark the sim as published in responsible_dev.md

QA

• Dev testing started (Date: 02/23/2018)
• Dev testing completed (Date: 03/05/2018)
• First RC published (Date: 04/20/2018)
  • Test matrices put in Testing Matrices Folder
• RC testing completed (Date: 04/24/2018)

When performing website QA I noticed that there were no teaching tips for area model introduction.

Opening this issue as a reminder to update credits.
Aside from yourself, @Luisav1, we will let you know who to add to QA credits.

For one-off releases