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

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Anastasia Cheetham     Inclusive Design Research Centre
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                                        OCAD University

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