On 5 Nov 2007, at 14:09, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Hi all! > I wanted to investigate if we could get rid of all our Close- > buttons in > some windows, since every window have a big close button in the top > right corner anyway. (therefore less clutter) > A big stopper for this was apparently the highcontrast themes, > where the > close button in the corner hit target is pretty small apparently.
> Would something like this be doable? > http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/hc.png Hmm, I don't recall the target area being the main issue[1]-- if it was, we'd probably just have fixed the metacity theme by now to make it bigger (e.g. by increasing the recommended title bar font size). I'm pretty sure the main accessibility concern was feedback from screenreader users, who preferred the safety of an explicit Close button in the main part of instant apply windows-- i.e. one that they could Tab to, and that a screenreader would announce. IIRC, there never used to be any way for screenreader users to tell if there was a close button in the title bar or not, without pressing Ctrl-W or Alt-F4 and listening to what happened, which is obviously an unsatisfactory experience. I don't know off-hand if this situation has improved with Orca. (You could argue that there should always be a close button in a window's title bar, but that's not necessarily true-- e.g. alerts generally shouldn't have one because its meaning could be ambiguous, although metacity still puts one there anyway[2].) Cc'ing a couple of a11y folks to get their recollections/opinions... Cheeri, Calum. [1] Although it was certainly mentioned in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ show_bug.cgi?id=302076 [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319723 -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
