One point I might add, is that frequently the best design for an accessible user interface, is one that's more usable by anyone and everyone, regardless of usability. However, I can see there are issues of workload and responsibility here such that Bhaavan's interesting suggestions could well be better pursued with another team.
Cheers, Alan On 14 March 2012 15:50, Piñeiro <apinhe...@igalia.com> wrote: > On 03/09/2012 01:40 PM, Bhaavan Merchant wrote: >> Hello, > > Hi, sorry for the delay in the answer. > >> I am Bhaavan Merchant, and I have just joined this group. I have >> really liked the Gnome Shell UI and how gnome has become much more >> user friendly from Gnome3. Also, I have tried other environments like >> KDE and Unity but did not find them as convenient as Gnome. >> >> However, one feature in Unity 5.4 has impressed me. The HUD (Heads Up >> Display) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c ) which they >> have implemented, provides an easy accessible way to navigate through >> the menu system. The menu system, has been around since beginning of >> GUIs and hasnt really changed with times. IMO, it is archaic and also >> not consistent across different programs. IMO, HUD provides a good >> work around for this making menus usable again especially for programs >> like the Gimp, Inkscape, Blender etc. which have multi-level menu system. > > There is something that I don't understand. Why do you think that HUD is > a accessibility improvement? In general GTK applications menu are right > now accessible. If you say that because you feel that with this > improvement Menus are more usable, IMHO, this is not an accessibility > improvement, but an usability improvement. > > >> Ofcourse we cannot remove the traditional menu system, since it is >> more or less a necessity in most applications. However, we could have >> HUD launch (perhaps on Alt keypress trigger), and make searching >> through menus an easier task. > > This comments seems to justify my previous questions. > >> >> I have prepared a mockup for this ( http://i.imgur.com/3rZm8.png ), >> and would really love to hear your feedback and suggestions on this. >> If the response is positive, I would love to work on this project, and >> begin implementing this on gnome perhaps by gnome 3.6. Excuse my gimp >> skills, because they are elementary. > > Idem. > >> >> Flow: >> 1) Normal Application is launched, and clicking its name on the top >> bar launches a traditional menu. >> 2) However when Alt is pressed, the traditional menu is replaced with >> an HUD menu instance, and the keyboard focus changes to the textbox in >> the HUD menu. >> 3) As one types, a fuzzy logic comparison is applied to match to the >> nearest available menu options and the result is populated in the menu. >> >> Thank you, > > The main focus of the work that we are doing to improve GNOME Shell > accessibility is making the widgets,menus etc on GNOME Shell accessible, > so for example, an Orca user could use GNOME Shell as any other user. > But as I said, I feel that what you are proposing is about changing the > usability of GNOME Shell. In that case you should contact GNOME Shell > developers, or perhaps GNOME designers, as they are the ones that > decides usability issues there. > > Thanks for your ideas and comments, > > BR > > -- > Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
