Re: Use of progressive disclosure in "How People with Disabilities Use the Web"

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your feedback!

As discussed, we will be looking at the implementation and the use of 
the expand/collapse functionality more closely.

The print comment is particularly useful at this stage since we will 
discuss ideas for WAI website redesign during the upcoming f2f.

PS: sorry to hear about your colleague leave and good luck to him.

Best,
   Shadi


On 28.10.2010 23:32, Michael Stenitzer wrote:
> Dear editors,
>
> As discussed earlier with Shadi i submit my comments / thoughts on the
> use of progressive disclosure on pages like "How People with
> Disabilities Use the Web".
>
> Generally I think progressive disclosure (PD) is a very valuable
> technique to make pages and applications more usable and scanable.
> People can focus on the parts or tasks they are interested in.
>
> But I'm not sure if we could improve the PWD-Use-Web-pages ...
>
> Will our readers be interested more in certain sections or in reading
> the core-content of a page in general? I think - compared to the
> WCAG-guidelines where one is probably more often than not interested in
> just a certain piece of information - people might want to read through
> those pages, at least to get a general impression of the topic.
>
> Generally I think the initially visible content should be a balanced and
> informative document, not just one sentence of introduction and a number
> of headlines.
>
> But PD might of course be of value on these pages as well.
>
> eg:
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/2009/scenarios
>
> Here I would collapse just the further-reading sections (Related
> sections within this resource)
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/2009/disabilities
>
> On this page it might be sensible to collapse the sections
> - Examples of * disabilities
> - Examples of web accessibility barriers
> - Related sections within this resource
>
> By collapsing those parts we have left an initially opened content which
> gives us a very informative and well readable article.
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/2009/provisions
>
> Again i would just collapse those further reading sections:
> - Related technical specifications
> - Related sections within this resource
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/2009/browsing
>
> On this page one can argue about collapsing or expanding the examples.
> Definitly i would collapse "Related sections within this resource".
>
>
> If we keep the current form of presentation with a collapsing of nearly
> all content we should discuss the behaviour of printing. In this case I
> think it would be more appropriate to print the whole page. Or we
> provide printing links: [print visible] | [print all]
>
>
> Finally a note for Shadi: unfortunatly our javascript wiz will not be
> able to help you because he will leave us and move to Berlin as he told
> me today ;(
>
> If you want to discuss those comments feel free to contact me.
>
> Regards, michael
>

-- 
Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ |
   WAI International Program Office Activity Lead   |
  W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |

Received on Friday, 29 October 2010 07:04:36 UTC