Re: [Usability] New dialog for handling file conflicts in Nautilus - UI review request

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 25 Apr 2008, at 23:27, Christian Neumair wrote:

> El jue, 24-04-2008 a las 23:38 +0100, Calum Benson escribió:
> > On 24 Apr 2008, at 21:27, Shaun McCance wrote:
> >
> > > While that certainly sounds natural, don't the accessibility
> > > folks usually recommend against changing buttons like that?
> >
> > Yes, there's potential to confuse screenreader users there, so we'd
> > certainly have to run it past them to see they considered it an  
> > issue.
>
> It would be great if you could do these test for us. Nobody except you
> seems to have the relevant experience for doing them properly.

I'll happily forward it to the a11y folks for their comments, although  
they'll probably say the same as I would... that it's hard to tell for  
sure without mocking up a working prototype and trying to use it with  
a screenreader.  No special knowledge required for that, really,  
although the assistance of a 'real live' screenreader user would be  
helpful-- and there are probably more of those on gnome-accessibility- 
discuss willing to help out than the a11y team here at Sun has  
immediate access to, if we can give them something to try.

> It would be a big help if there were automated and easy to set up test
> suites for simulating such scenarios. At the moment there does not  
> seem
> to be much knowledge transfer from the a11y people to GNOME-related
> developer communities in this sensitive area.


I'd be surprised if the a11y folks don't have some sort of automated  
test suites on the go... you'd have to ask them.  However, you can't  
really automate human responses to information presented, which is  
what we're more interested in here.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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