Re: [Usability] HIG v3 Update

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hi,

I wonder whether the Accessibility team takes part on the effort to create the HIG3. In fact, there are for example users that can only interact with the computer by using a keyboard or others thay can only use the pointer...(to only name a few)

Integrating such consideration directly into the HIG3 might not only give access to the computer to more people; but it might also be beneficial to the whole GNOME community by offering its users more ways to perform the different actions on the GUI.

Cheers,

Francesco.

On 08/06/2010 05:45 PM, Allan Day wrote:
> Hello!
>
> An update on the new version of the HIG...
>
> We had a good BoF on the topic of new HIG at GUADEC, and me, Calum and
> mpt started drafting some patterns. If you're interested in what the new
> HIG will look like, I've written a report on my blog [1]. You can also
> find the *draft* material here [2].
>
> It's early days and there's lots to do, so please get in touch if you
> want do some work on this. We need help with:
>
>   * Writing patterns
>   * Editing and proofing
>   * Porting existing guidelines to the new format
>
> See the aforementioned draft patterns page [2] for more info.
>
> There are also a few issues relating to the new HIG which would benefit
> from discussion:
>
> * Format and hosting
>
> Should the new HIG be hosted on the wiki, on a dedicated web-site, or in
> a format that can be stored locally? We talked about integrating it into
> Glade (or a new super-fancy Glade-like tool) at the BoF. That would be
> cool, but it'd need some developers to step up if it were to happen. ;)
> In the absence of this, I was wondering whether some kind of CMS would
> do the trick. It would be quick to set up, allow us to have discussion
> threads hanging off each pattern, and people could subscribe to the site
> to get updates when new patterns are added.
>
> * The pattern template
>
> The pattern template can be found here [3]. It's still in draft form and
> I think the plan is to develop it as we get further into the writing
> process. Some points about the template were raised at the BoF and
> Calum's added them to the template. Has anybody got anything else to
> add? Calum explained that the User Guidelines section is primarily for
> the benefit of documentation writers. Do any docs people have a view on
> this? Would they like to help write these sections?
>
> * Design decisions
>
> There are going to be some new design proposals made as part of the new
> HIG. I'm planning to report on these in the future - it would be nice to
> have some discussion around them. It could also be good to do some kind
> of high level review, but that's a little way off.
>
>   * Highlighting important points
>
> mpt pointed out that it would be good to highlight those parts of the
> new HIG that deviate from:
>
>   a) the current version, or
>   b) what other OSs do
>
> Can we have some standard icons or expressions to delineate these? I was
> wondering about using dialog-question for the OS specific points and
> emblem-important for HIG changes. Opinions?
>
> That's it! :)
>
> Allan
>
> [1] http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/hig-v3/
> [2] http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG3
> [3] http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG3/PatternTemplate
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