Hi everyone,
I'd like to bring the community up to speed on where Fluid is at with
implementing accessible reordering of portlets, and to solicit input
from the community.
Work on the portlet reorderer is progressing (interested parties can
track our progress by monitoring our JIRA site, in particularhttp://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-49
).
We have a functioning mock-up available (using the new skin) on our
build site:
http://build.fluidproject.org (last link on the page)
Note: In this mock-up, the Google portlet is locked in the top-left
spot.
Next week, Barbara will be conducting user trials here in Toronto
using this mock-up. It would also be helpful if volunteers from the
uPortal community would have a look and provide us with their feedback.
The mock-up is not quite complete yet. Here's what we're currently
working on:
1) Visual indication of locked portlets, and other improvements to
visual indicators of movability, etc. Shaw-han is going to work on
this, but we welcome any suggestions on this front.
2) Allowing keyboard access to links, etc. within the portlets. There
was some discussion about this issue on the fluid-work mailing list
last month, and based on that, our current proposal is summarized at
http://fluidproject.org/work/keyboardtest/keyboardtest.html
We'd appreciate input on this scheme, since it has not yet been fully
addressed by existing standards or guidelines, so we're basically
forging new ground. Please have a look, and let us know any thoughts
you have.
3) Allowing portlets to be dragged into an empty column: Right now,
you can move all of the portlets out of a column, but you cannot yet
move any back into an emptied column.
I will be working on updating the documentation on our wiki over the
next few days to reflect the recent changes in the Reorderer API.
Our next big task is incorporating the Reorderer into uPortal itself,
and we'll need to work closely with the uPortal community on this. The
Reorderer is instantiated by passing two Javascript objects to an
initialization function. Jen Bourey has been working with us on the
structure of the Javascript objects, which define the layout of the
portlets and the permissions associated with them. The one line of
script to invoke the initialization will need to be part of the main
portal page.
We're looking forward to seeing the Reorderer finally working in
uPortal!
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Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Designer, Fluid Project fluidproject.org
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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