Re: Close buttons in dialogs

[Eitan Isaacson <eitan ascender com>]

I don't see how things really changed since. Close buttons are good for screen reader users because it puts the dialog dismissal as part of the focus order (and work order), and thus discoverable.

Currently a keyboard user could get by without knowing about alt+f4 at all, I could see it being frustrating to new users if there is no way of dismissing a modal dialog without learning alt+f4.

Cheers,
  Eitan.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:

Hi all,

One question I was asked at GUADEC this year was regarding the old chestnut of Close buttons in the bottom corner of instant-apply dialogs, which some designers (including Apple's, if you look at their OS X system preference dialogs) consider to be an unpleasantly-redundant feature.

One of the main areas of resistance to the removal of such buttons the last time it was considered was feedback from assistive technology users, who (albeit in an unscientific straw poll) expressed an overall preference for retaining the explicit Close button, in addition to the window manager Close button and associated keyboard shortcut.

With GNOME 3.0 now just a couple of blocks away, if not quite around the corner just yet, I was wondering if this is still the consensus?  Or have AT improvements or any other factors now reduced the need for explicit Close buttons in instant-apply dialogs?

Thanks,
Calum.

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