I have a general question that may be out of scope. The illustrations and the 
work to date have all used a column layout. Is the reorder capable of working 
with multiple sections, e.g. a 3 column section below a one column section?

John

On 5 Oct 2010, at 17:36, Jonathan Hung wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> Attached is an illustration of a proposed update to the Layout Reorderer demo.
> 
> The notable changes are:
> - the use of a locked icon to indicate locked content.
> - addition of instructions and description of usage.
> - a top "drag bar" to movable content.
> - an asymmetrical layout bearing resemblance to a website with 2 sidebars and 
> a main content area.
> 
> Accessibility question:
> - How is this demo accessible to screen readers? I feel that the feedback 
> will need to be descriptive in order to convey the proper ordering and 
> relationships of objects as they are moved between columns.
> 
> Questions:
> 1.  Do you think locked content should have a more distinctive appearance?
> 2. What is your opinion of using a lock icon versus having the words "Locked"?
> 
> Implementation question:
> 3. The lock icons in the content area will be implemented as background 
> images as to not interfere with ATs (in effect be invisible to screen 
> readers). However, the lock icon in the instructions will be "seen" by ATs. 
> It is potentially confusing that the instructions reference a lock image, but 
> the rest of the demo does not as far as the AT is concerned. How should this 
> be handled?
> 
> 
> Thoughts on the overall design and comments to the above questions are 
> welcome!
> 
> - Jonathan.
> 
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