Comments from Terrill Thompson on the new APG website

Hi Jon,

I like the clean, simple interface of the new site. It's much less overwhelming for someone who's entering it for the first time.

It would be great though if it could include a Search feature.  A couple of use cases:

  *   I'm pretty sure APG v 1.1 included a calendar widget as an example. I'm not sure if that was still present in v 1.2, or if it's still present in the new version. If I search the home page for "calendar" I get no results, but maybe it's out there somewhere as an example of a particular design pattern - I'm just not sure which one.
  *   Website navigation menus have been problematic for years. The obvious choice among the design patterns shown on the home page is "menu or menubar", but use of that pattern for a nested list of website navigation list is generally discouraged.  I know from experience that better choice is "Disclosure (Show/Hide)" and in fact if I look there I'll find two examples of navigation menus that use this design pattern. Most developers don't refer to their website navigation using that terminology though - they refer to it as a "menu".  Having a prominent search feature would enable them to search for "navigation menu", in which case they would see that there are some alternatives to "menu or menubar".
Regards,
Terrill

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Terrill Thompson
Manager, IT Accessibility Team
UW-IT Accessible Technology Services
University of Washington
tft@uw.edu<mailto:tft@uw.edu>


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