New keyboard accessibility plugin demo - Image Viewer design

Fri Oct 22 19:44:38 UTC 2010

Now it's the question if having hotkeys makes sense. I can foresee possible
confusion:

- By pressing 1, does the user expect the star rating to change, or for the
selection will jump back to the first image?

- If an image has focus, but not selected to be the image in the main
viewer, does pressing the hotkey change the rating for the image in the main
viewer, or the image that has the focus? (there is separate focus and
selection because we wanted to demonstrate keyboard navigation and handling
actions).

- Since keyboard focus can be shifted around the interface, will the user
ever be uncertain about what the hotkey will do?

While I think having hotkeys for the stars is a good idea, I want to make
sure it makes sense before incorporating it into the demo.

I have my own thoughts on this matter, but would like to hear what others
think as well.

- Jonathan.

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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Colin Clark <colinbdclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> The keyboard plugin does indeed support arbitrary (and configurable) key
> bindings for activating elements. Supporting Jan's "1, 2, 3" shortcuts
> should be no problem, assuming it makes for a good, clear demo.
>
> Colin
>
>
> On 2010-10-22, at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Hung <jhung at ocad.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> That's an excellent suggestion, but I don't think the keyboard plugin
> supports hotkeys at the moment. We can add hotkeys separately, but may risk
> confusing it with the functionality of the keyboard plugin. I think there
> was some talk about hotkeys, but I'm not sure if that is a feature that is
> planned. I would support the idea of adding hotkey support to the keyboard
> plugin - it seems logical.
>
> I think we should leave hotkeys out of the demo for now.
>
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> Jonathan Hung / <jhung.utoronto at gmail.com>jhung at ocad.ca
> IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
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> Fax: (416) 977-9844
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>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Richards, Jan < <jrichards at ocad.ca>
> jrichards at ocad.ca> wrote:
>
>>  For the star setting, maybe also allow pressing “1”, “2”...?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> (Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc.
>>
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>> *From:* <fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org>
>> fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org [mailto:<fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org>
>> fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Jonathan Hung
>> *Sent:* October 21, 2010 3:37 PM
>> *To:* Fluid Work
>> *Subject:* Re: New keyboard accessibility plugin demo - Image Viewer
>> design
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Attached is an updated wireframe for the keyboard plugin demo. The design
>> is essentially the same, but with a notable reduction in use of context
>> messages which now only appear for the 5-star widget and the keyboard
>> instructions.
>>
>> Please take a look at the design and let me know your thoughts!
>>
>> - Jonathan.
>>
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>> Jonathan Hung / <jhung.utoronto at gmail.com>jhung at ocad.ca
>> IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
>> Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
>> Fax: (416) 977-9844
>>
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>>  On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Hung < <jhung at ocad.ca>
>> jhung at ocad.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> With the date of the 1.3 release pushed back (Justin is going to send an
>> email about this shortly), we now have time to implement a new demo for the
>> keyboard accessibility plugin.
>>
>> If following this email thread, this would be Option #1 mentioned in
>> Anastasia's email sent on October 18.
>>
>> I will be updating the wireframes and will send the latest version to this
>> mailing list for feedback.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> - Jonathan.
>> ---
>> Jonathan Hung / <jhung.utoronto at gmail.com>jhung at ocad.ca
>> IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
>> Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
>> Fax: (416) 977-9844
>>
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>>    On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Jess Mitchell <<jessmitchell at gmail.com>
>> jessmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nice!  I like the example.  And thanks AC for the link ;)
>>
>> Jon, are you imagining if we go the direction of '2b' that we'd tighten
>> the example up a bit -- for instance, there is a lot of text on those pages
>> that isn't necessarily necessary for demonstrating the tab keyboard piece.
>>  Or perhaps I'm assuming it's just the interactions among the tabs that is
>> particularly interesting...
>>
>> ?
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Jonathan Hung wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Anastasia,
>> >
>> > I'm good with Option 2b and cleaning up the example where needed.
>> >
>> > - Jonathan.
>> >
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>> > Jonathan Hung / <jhung at ocad.ca>jhung at ocad.ca
>> > IDRC - Interaction Designer / Researcher
>> > Tel: (416) 977-6000 x3959
>> > Fax: (416) 977-9844
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Cheetham, Anastasia <<acheetham at ocad.ca>
>> acheetham at ocad.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > Jon and I reviewed his Gallery Viewer mock-up this afternoon and
>> discussed some tweaks to the keyboard interaction. I think this will be a
>> good demo of the keyboard accessibility plug-in.
>> >
>> > Our question now is with the timeframe for implementing it. Justin's
>> goal for code freeze is Wednesday this week i.e. two days. That's a bit
>> tight to implement an exemplary demo from scratch. Justin favours postponing
>> it to 1.4, but then that leaves us with the question of what to do for a
>> keyboard-a11y plug-in demo for 1.3 (since the current portal demo is
>> broken).
>> >
>> > So our options seem to be:
>> >
>> > 1) Focus on implementing an all-new demo, and get something completed in
>> time for code freeze.
>> >
>> > 2) Postpone the new demo 'til the next release, and either
>> >
>> >  a) remove the current not-working portal demo (and put in a "Coming
>> Soon" sign), or
>> >
>> >  b) use Colin and James' Philosophy Lesson demo as a temporary portal
>> demo for 1.3, to be replaced in 1.4 with the Gallery Viewer.
>> >
>> > Personally, I favour option 2b, but I'm wondering what other people
>> think.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Anastasia Cheetham     Inclusive Design Research Centre
>> > <acheetham at ocad.ca>acheetham at ocad.ca            Inclusive Design
>> Institute
>> >                                        OCAD University
>> >
>> >
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