[TYPO3-hci] [TYPO3-t3skin] Two proposals for a new skin.

[Andreas Balzer]

Hi!
Corrado schrieb:
> The skins look interesting.
> 
> 1) Have you considered compliance with accessibility standards for people
> who have impairments?
Me: Yes. Many others: Yes. Many more others: Where's ajax?!?
You know, it's difficult to design a graphical interface that is capable 
of giving you the opportunity to use ajax functionality, drag and drop 
_and_ accessibility at the same time. I have asked a couple of months 
ago already but many people like to see feature rich and easy to use 
applications more than something that is usable for only a few people 
more easily. However: Some people (including me) have suggested to use a 
general system that takes care of providing the information for the skin 
via PHP or something similiar. The skin is then only added and can be 
easily changed. So I would suggest to make a skin for most of the people 
that is really easy to use for them and later on a skin that is making 
usage of all the accessibility features computer enables us to provide 
today. However: We should take care that this "later on" doesn't become 
50 years after T3 5.0.

> 2) It would be important to offer an alternative to drop down dynamic menus
> to people who experience physical difficulties.
see above

> 3) The height of the toolbar should be carefully planned, because many
> people still work with 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 (especially in developing
> countries). For the same reason, we need a option to set the height of the
> toolbar.
I think it will be possible to hide the texts but I don't think that 
it'll be possible to do so unless we use vector images on the server side.

> The toolbars work definitively better that the long menu on the left!
Yeah, but it can become problematic if the admin installs thousands of 
extensions that bring own modules.

Greetings
Andreas