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Non Modal Message System
Current versions of OpenOffice.org use modal dialogs to give feedback in many situations. This interrupts users every time such a dialog is shown. Most of these messages are not that important, but it is no option to stop giving feedback. Furthermore new features, like sharing documents with others need a kind of message system to broadcast collaboration information. Giving feedback needs to be accessible, so it is not sufficient to show a message text somewhere in a dialog or just to change the color of a control. Those text and color changes will not be read by AT tools.
Work in Progress.
Message Types
Visual representation (colors, design) of the following types is subject to change.
Type 1
TBD: Show navigation on focus only.
Type 2
Temporary messages: Information is only of interest in a special context. I.e. feedback when searching the document.
Type 3
References
Christoph Noack
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