On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
I am really happy to find out you, as a blind person, are on this list and that you want to get involved into MM3 development, because creating a user interface that works well for most visually impaired people is one of our/my major goals in the MM3 WUI (web user interface) overhaul.
Glad to hear it. I've been using Mm successfully in varius capacities for 10 years, so I have some experience of using it. I've only recently taken on site admin tasks with it, which is when I decided to jump on the mailing lists.
This said: I believe the current interface is too complicated even for those who don't need to meet any perceptional or motional challenges:
Oh I can see the issues. I think its served us nurdy types reasonably well for some time, but as you say, it's not very logical in the way it does things.
I was mainly wanting to highlight my accessibility concerns, particularly since I couldn't see the mock-ups, but I agree with all your points.
But JavaScript et al. must not be a basic requirement. We want progressive enhancement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Enhancement> and, to answer one of your questions in your message, our goal is to ship a default user interface that provides the needed accessibility.
I'm glad to hear it, and I'm sure others will be also.
You mentioned "some other feature requests based on 2.1.x functionality". I'd be curious to learn what they are and even more than that I would like to invite you to help us create a user interface that works for as many as possible.
Most of my other feature requests are functionality-related, rather than UI as such. Some may already be in the wishlist(s) on the Wiki (or wherever I saw it). I'm happy to post them here in a separate thread if people think it's relevant. They're just things I've jotted down when using Mm that I've thought should be changed/fixed.
As for UI development, I'm fairly rusty at Python and I've never actually used Django (though I like the look of it), but I'd be happy to get my hands dirty if it's a matter of tweeking what someone else has started.
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