James, thanks for having a look at the work so far. I'll adjust the widget headers appropriately, and I'll wait for icons and button images from you.
On 2011-05-18, at 2:07 PM, James William Yoon wrote: > Looking good, Anastasia! > > 1) Should icons in widgets be replaced with their text alternatives, the way > the high-contrast themes do? Currently, that's the way I've implemented it, > but I wasn't sure. > > Whenever possible, we should have theme-appropriate icons (e.g., yellow on > black icons). We should make a note that implementers are expected/encouraged > to provide these for their users. I'll provide the ones necessary for UIO. > > I don't think it's generally a good solution to replace icons (or images > generally) with their text alternatives as: a) it can be confusing for the > visual user to see text where images were intended, particularly when the > layout and positioning of elements is affected, and b) icons are often > already accompanied by equivalent text labels. > > But, until we can come up with a more appropriate solution, we can stick with > the "icons replaced by text alternatives when no contrast-appropriate icons > are present". > > I'd love to hear the community's thoughts on this one. > > 2) Does the "header" line of the widgets look ok? Some themes seems to > "invert" the colour scheme of the body, others do not. I wasn't sure which > way to go. > > By default, the headers shouldn't be inverted. You're right, some of the > themes do exhibit some wacky behavior. > > In short: header text for an x-on-y theme should have colour x on background > y. > > 3) What should we do with FSS buttons? The FSS includes classes that use > background images to make links "look like" buttons. You can see what that > looks like in other themes at the bottom of my test file. Not sure what to do > with the yellow/black themes? > > As with #1, we should provide theme-appropriate background images for this. > This applies to pretty much all images, generally. > > James -- Anastasia Cheetham Inclusive Design Research Centre [email protected] Inclusive Design Institute OCAD University _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
