Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Hi All! Mock-up.

Hi Evan,

At 01:55 6-9-2011, Evan Janusziewicz wrote:
> I'm just making sure this gets to the whole design team. I've created a
> mock-up of what LibreOffice could be like in the future. It's on my wiki
> profile at twstdude0to1.

I assume you are referring to the second mockup at 
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:twstdude0to1>.
A few very things to bear in mind for a new design:
* Theme support, especially high contrast themes (often with larger 
fonts), is essential for users with certain vision impairments. It 
has been a while since I tested high-contrast support in 
OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, but I thought it worked fine, so this 
should not be lost in the new design.
* Keyboard access: for example, a ribbon-based interface needs to be 
just as easy to access by keyboard as a menu-based interface. (I 
still don't know how to use the keyboard to select a formatting style 
in the MS Word 2010 ribbon, for example.)
* Focus visibility for sighted keyboard users: this is currently not 
an issue in menus and dialogs, but it also needs to work well in task 
panels and dockable panes. For example, open the Navigator (press 
F5), dock it, then press F6 to cycle through the menu, the toolbar(s) 
etcetera, until you arrive at the Navigator, then use the arrow keys 
to navigate the buttons at the top of the Navigator. (Someone should 
test this with a high-contrast theme on Windows, Mac OS, Gnome and 
KDE to see whether contrast is sufficient for low vision users.)
* Accessibility to assistive technologies, for example, exposing 
name, state, properties of menu items and other UI components through 
the accessibility API.

Best regards,

Christophe


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