Another Idea of presenting the report

Dear BAD Taskforce,

as I mentioned in previous phone calls, the report format we’re
currently discussing is too colourful to me, additionally i found it
quite hard to read (although this might be resolved in future
updates).

To add some constructive criticism to my argument, I’ve created the
following mockup:

http://bad.ericeggert.net/report/

What did I do?

- Rather than trying to tie all four principles into one table, I’ve
reduced complexity and split them up into four (actually I’m only
displaying one of the four tables).
- I use clear and distinct headings for the Principles. This should
allow for better scanning and should help screen readers also as we
cannot indicate hierarchy in table rows semantically (only visually
and in descriptive text.
- I moved the show contents control to the left and used the metaphor
I’m used to from mac os, which feels okay for me although the sub
points feel a little bit flat. this could be improved visually.
- I did leave out icons for a reason: they are often unclear and don’t
add anything to the already color coded table cells.
- I merged the cell for the guideline number and title to show their
close relationship.

So, what do you think?

Regards,
Eric

(Actually that should have been sent out a week ago, but I used the
wrong email. Sorry!)

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Eric Eggert

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Received on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 15:09:33 UTC