Re: "Beyond the Demo" page

Hi Shadi.

> Please have a look at the latest edit (linked below) and let me know if you
> continue to have concerns. I think I've addressed the jumping back and forth
> issue that you raised.
>  - <http://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/draft/2009/>

Actually not, it is even more confusing then I’ve thought. For
example, if you click on “Evaluation Reports” you get to a site which
shows the navigation to the demo websites as the most prominent
interface element. Users will click onto the tabs (which are barely
recognizable as tabs as there is no content area), as they’d expect
they are in context and will take them to the evaluation report of the
different pages.

Then there is an accessible/inaccessible switch which doesn’t do what
all the other elements in that navigation do: It switches _inside_ the
documentation, not the demo.

I am not even a fan of having the same link („Evaluation Report“) in
our meta header to link to different pages, I think it should link to
the evaluation report overview page.

Even I am confused now. The whole frankennavigation doesn’t work that
way, it was never intended to. Look at the old version, where you have
all barriers on one page:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2005/Demo/features>

Of course that shouldn’t be the case with the reports but it
simplifies to a great extent, and that is what we need. We should have
a clear line between “these are the demo pages” and “that is the
documentation”, I think it is wrong to mix them together and will lead
to confusion anyway. Why not just use a list of links linking to the
demo if that is necessary? Tabs are for in-context viewing, but the
context on the documentation changes all the time, so that is
confusing.

Regards,
Eric

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Received on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:04:12 UTC