Re: QA & A11y question: new w3c validator interface

Wow this is much better interface
also on new one I get 280 errors versus old one 160 errors

good job and thanks!

olivier Thereaux wrote:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> [
>   for www-validator readers, context:
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007Aug/thread.html#msg76
> ]
> 
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 07:28 , Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
>> is intended to hide the "advanced" options from the user, unless
>> the "More Options" link is activated, but when i access the page
>> using MSIE7 and the latest build of JAWS 8x, the entire content
>> of the form, including the visually obscured portion is
>> articulated; moreover, when i tab navigate the form, the tab
>> navigation moves from invisible checkbox to invisible form control,
>> until reaching the submit button...
> 
> For a comparison of the previous and current UI of the validator,
> http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/0.7.4/
> versus
> http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/
> 
> The earlier version of the UI had a number of usability issues, and was 
> deemed ugly and hard to use by its core audience, which is why we worked 
> on improving looks and usability. One notable issue that was reported to 
> us several times, involved the scenario:
> * a designer visits the validator home page
> * … adds some content in the form
> * … needs to set a specific option, clicks on the link that sends him to 
> a separate page
> * … and loses all the content he'd just set
> 
> To remedy this issue, we worked on keeping all the UI under a single 
> URI, using CSS and scripting to tabulate between the types of input 
> methods (URI, upload…) and to hide/show the extra options. The result 
> has been hailed as progress in usability by the large majority of users 
> of the validator, who can use the tool with graphical browsers featuring 
> CSS and scripting support. Meanwhile, very special care was given to 
> make sure that the interface would be semantically marked up (legend, 
> label, …) and that the core functionality (entering content to be 
> validated, setting options, submitting the form) would always be 
> available to user agents without scripting and/or CSS enabled.
> 
> That's for the context. The choices of grouping all the UI under a 
> single "page" and using scripting/css has its pros and cons, but we are 
> certain that it brought a significant increase in usability for 99% of 
> users of the markup validator. That said, it would be fantastic if we 
> could make some improvements over the current situation to make it more 
> usable for non-mouse users, as e.g Gez noted.
> 
> The validator is open source
> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/validator/
> and practical suggestions, patches are more than welcome.
> 
> Please keep the www-validator list in the loop when you do so, or 
> through bugzilla for precise bug reports and/or patches.
> e.g http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4959
> 
> thank you.
> --olivier
> 


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Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:21:35 UTC