[TYPO3-UG US] New Design for TYPO3.us

[Michelle Heizer]

Hi Christopher,

Yes, this was my concern as well. Actually, the text is in Arial on the
menu and on the headers. Some of the graphics use Myriad, but not many
of them. We could use gifbuilder to build them which may show off T3's
capabilities.

I'd like to keep the site as accessible as possible since I think it's
very important to show TYPO3 as a compliant CMS.

Michelle

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:36 -0700, Christopher wrote:
> On 26/10/05, Michelle Heizer <michelle at typo3.us> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Reuven has provided a mockup for the new TYPO3.us website. Please take a
> > look at your earliest convenience and provide feedback before Saturday.
> > After that, the team will be working on transferring the site to our T3
> > installation.
> >
> > http://test.typo3.us/fileadmin/typo3us/template/t3uswebsite.jpg
> >
> > Thanks to Reuven for all his hard work!
> >
> 
> It looks very good indeed, it really does.
> 
> My one question would be about accessibility; I notice that there
> seems to be a heavy reliance on graphical text (this is how it seems
> on the basis of the aliased fonts in the mockup, I could obviously be
> wrong...)
> 
> On the one hand, the ability to dynamically create graphical text and
> composite images is a superb feature of TYPO3 that should be
> highlighted, but on the other hand, the system is still not terribly
> sophisticated at making accessible graphical text (e.g. it's at least
> difficult to build a good GMENU that degrades nicely to text if gfx or
> css is disabled)...
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing the design team's opinions on
> accessibility with respect to the new site.
> 
> -Christopher