Re: PSA: Accessibility in a menubar-less design

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On 02/25/2014 09:07 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 08:48 -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > The current feedback from the design team is to not set a tooltip for
> > > the cog menu button, but it would be great to have general guidelines
> > > for this pattern, including what to put in the atk labels.
> >
> > I'm okay with there being no tooltip. As for the accessible name, I
> > personally think it should match whatever word(s) we use to describe it
> > when talking about it (to end users) and in documentation. In other
> > words, if you wanted me to click on that thing, you'd probably tell me
> > something like, "Click on the foo button." In which case the accessible
> > name should be "foo."
>
> Funny. The docs team always says that what we call it should match its
> accessible name. Somebody's going to have to decide what to call the
> thing. We haven't been able to make a decision.

Hahahaha. :)

Since the Design Team is defining the user experience, perhaps that
experience could/should include what we call these things when talking
about them with end users.

--joanie