- From: Henny Swan <hennys@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:16:20 +0100
- To: kim@redstartsystems.com
- Cc: Simon Harper <simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk>, UAWG list <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Simon, you raise a really key point and something that I've been acutely aware of since joining Opera. Discoverability is key and features are as good as redundant if they are not evident. I like the idea of highlighting features as a user comes cross them. Our implementation of Mouse Gestures [1] does this when the browser registers that you have performed a move in line with Mouse Gestures. There is a fine line to overloading the user however. I agree with you that users rarely go to the manuel to find features. We implemented Discover Opera [2] for more generic feature discovery (Speed Dial, Sessions, Skins, Search) and I think this would be interesting to do for accessibility related information. Ideas about how to do this are: 1. Customisation of accessibility features available from the side panel in Opera. 2. Prompts when you set up the browser to customise it (scale, font, colours, icon size, pre-defined style sheets etc). I'm not sure if what you describe is exactly covered by UAAG but think it;s worth discussing in one of our calls. Cheers, Henny [1] http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/gestures/ [2] http://portal1.opera.com/discover/ On 5 Aug 2009, at 16:45, Kim Patch wrote: > I agree that this is incredibly important, and something that has > always been sorely lacking. This may be getting too far into > implementation details, but if you think about the learning process, > it often includes organizing and highlighting. It would be very > different experience if you could always easily discover, modify, > organize and share interface controls. > > Cheers, > Kim > > Simon Harper wrote: >> >> I think one of the more important things that we may be missing is >> the ability of users to self-explore the interface and UA+Content >> aspects of the interface. Many blind users who I talk with often >> state that they explore incrementally and don't refer much to the >> accessible manuals. >> >> Cheers >> Si. >> >> ======================= >> >> Simon Harper >> University of Manchester (UK) >> >> Human Centred Web Lab: http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk >> >> My Site: http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/harper/ >> >> My Diary (Web): http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/harper/phpicalendar/week.php >> My Diary (Subscribe): http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/diaries/harper/SimonHarper.ics >> >> >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.44/2283 - Release Date: >> 08/05/09 05:57:00 >> >> > > > -- > ___________________________________________________ > > Kimberly Patch > President > Redstart Systems, Inc., makers of Utter Command > (617) 325-3966 > kim@redstartsystems.com > > www.redstartsystems.com > - making speech fly > > Patch on Speech blog > Redstart Systems on Twitter > ___________________________________________________ -- Henny Swan Web Evangelist Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Group www.opera.com/developer Personal blog: www.iheni.com Stay up to date with the Web Standards Curriculum www.opera.com/wsc
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