Agreed that these should be options.

-Jan

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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James William Yoon
Sent: October 22, 2010 10:36 AM
To: Justin Obara; Cheetham, Anastasia; Scheuhammer, Joseph; Fluid Work
Subject: Re: What role and interaction for Code/Plain in demo portal?

This is a tricky question. I don't think it really fits well under a particular 
interaction pattern. Justin's right--it has hints of everything you mentioned, 
Anastasia, and a bit of redesign could tighten things up.

The one thing I'd note is that this seems like a user display preference (read: 
ui options). In other words, does the user want syntax highlighting, line 
wrapping? Maybe we could move away from choosing between views, and instead 
introduce options such as "Show syntax highlighting", and "Line wrap".

Cheers,
James
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Justin Obara 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In their current implementation they seem to be links that activate something, 
but definitely feel as though they have hints of being radio buttons, toggle 
buttons, or tabs. I think a slight redesign may clarify their intention. For 
example if it is a toggle button, we might have an actual button that sets the 
view of the code and places a title at the top of the tab panel that says 
either "Code View" or "Plain Text". Also, I believe toggle buttons are just 
elements with the button role and the aria-pressed state set. Here's an example:

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/ARIA/togglebutton.html

Hope that helps
Justin

On 2010-10-21, at 2:50 PM, Cheetham, Anastasia wrote:

>
> I'm working on FLUID-3728, which aims to improve the accessibility of the 
> demo portal through proper ARIA, etc. I'm struggling with the current 
> affordance for switching between the colourized code view and the plain text 
> view on the right side of the pages. I'm hoping the community can help me 
> with some input.
>
> As an example, you can look at
>    
> http://build.fluidproject.org/infusion/demos/reorderer/gridReorderer/demo.html
>
> (Note: The portal on this nightly build has not yet been modified with any 
> improvements, so current ARIA and keyboard interactions are not yet "right.")
>
> On the right side of the page are some tabs, one for each of the files used 
> in the demo (html, css, js). Below the tabs (visually "inside" the tab) are 
> two pieces of text: "Code View" and "Plain Text." Clicking on either of these 
> pieces of text with the mouse will switch the display below it between the 
> colourized version and the plain text version.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what would be the proper ARIA role and keyboard 
> interaction for these two options. Are they radio buttons? A toggle button? 
> (Does ARIA even have a specific role for toggle buttons?) Are they tabs 
> (within a tab)? just plain links that activate something?
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
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