Fwd: Layout reorderer demo design update

[Obara, Justin]

Third try, now from a different e-mail address.

- Justin

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From: Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com<mailto:obara.justin at gmail.com>>
Date: October 7, 2010 8:49:56 AM EDT
To: Fluid Work <fluid-work at fluidproject.org<mailto:fluid-work at fluidproject.org>>
Subject: Fwd: Layout reorderer demo design update

Re-sending this to the list, as I got a delivery failure notice. Sorry if you get a duplicate copy.

- Justin

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From: Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com<mailto:obara.justin at gmail.com>>
Date: October 7, 2010 8:44:16 AM EDT
To: John Norman <john at caret.cam.ac.uk<mailto:john at caret.cam.ac.uk>>
Cc: Fluid Work <fluid-work at fluidproject.org<mailto:fluid-work at fluidproject.org>>
Subject: Re: Layout reorderer demo design update

Hi John,

So in your diagram you have two examples containing several rectangles. Are these rectangles the columns or the reorderable elements? If they are the columns, it should work after we fix the bug I had mentioned. However, if they are the reorderable elements, I'm not sure, since some of them span across columns. If you have any sample markup that you could provide us with, we could try it out and see what happens.

Thanks
Justin

On 2010-10-06, at 1:35 PM, John Norman wrote:

Thanks Justin. I have activated a watch for that JIRA. But I think I was asking a more ambitious question (hence the comment about perhaps being out of scope). The sketch below shows some of the widget layouts I was imagining:

J

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On 6 Oct 2010, at 14:14, Justin Obara wrote:

Hi John,

Sorry, the layout reorderer does not currently support stacked columns. There is a jira filed for this ( http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3089 ).

Thanks
Justin
On 2010-10-06, at 5:42 AM, John Norman wrote:

I have a general question that may be out of scope. The illustrations and the work to date have all used a column layout. Is the reorder capable of working with multiple sections, e.g. a 3 column section below a one column section?

John

On 5 Oct 2010, at 17:36, Jonathan Hung wrote:

Hi everyone.

Attached is an illustration of a proposed update to the Layout Reorderer demo.

The notable changes are:
- the use of a locked icon to indicate locked content.
- addition of instructions and description of usage.
- a top "drag bar" to movable content.
- an asymmetrical layout bearing resemblance to a website with 2 sidebars and a main content area.

Accessibility question:
- How is this demo accessible to screen readers? I feel that the feedback will need to be descriptive in order to convey the proper ordering and relationships of objects as they are moved between columns.

Questions:
1.  Do you think locked content should have a more distinctive appearance?
2. What is your opinion of using a lock icon versus having the words "Locked"?

Implementation question:
3. The lock icons in the content area will be implemented as background images as to not interfere with ATs (in effect be invisible to screen readers). However, the lock icon in the instructions will be "seen" by ATs. It is potentially confusing that the instructions reference a lock image, but the rest of the demo does not as far as the AT is concerned. How should this be handled?


Thoughts on the overall design and comments to the above questions are welcome!

- Jonathan.

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