Revision as of 10:33, 19 November 2010

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

DirectManipulationSnippets Direct Manipulation Snippets
ContextualInformation

FF4 Proposal [1][2]