526311 - [faceted search] Make the faceted search results window more accessible, part 2.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

From bug 516680, comment #3:
A second phase would be to add what I'd call geometric keyboard nav, so that
people can navigate between the two columns, for example -- it's hard to do
that in a way that works across all keyboard layouts.  I'm not sure whether
it's safe to assume that locales imply keyboard layouts.  I'm sure that using
the up/down/left/right arrows will be controversial.

From bug 516680, comment #19:
Then all we have to do is deal with the big blue boxy elephant in the room. How
does someone who doesn't use a mouse limit their results by date? Does the
timeline, which I can use to limit by some random month, or by a particular
month if my results have matches in at least every other month of a year, so I
don't have to guess what month a totally unlabelled bar "um, maybe four or five
widths from the start of the year" represents, even *exist*, as something
completely unusable, to Marco?

From bug 516680, comment #22:
Roger on all that.  I'll do a next rev after string freeze.  As to the timeline
localization, I suspect what I'd like is to hear from MarcoZ what it's like to
deal w/ Google's timeline:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=accessibility&hl=en&sa=G&tbo=1&output=search&tbs=tl:1
I suspect we won't be able to get to full a11y of the timeline for TB3, but
Google's timeline seems to provide a possible path.

Finally, from bug 516680, comment #43:
The button that opens the graph showing the search results overtime is still not labelled.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Bryan/Blake, do you think we should block for this? Do we have an WIP on this, for at least some limited accessibility?

Comment 2

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

We don't have an WIP on this, so I would lean towards "no", but I could bug MarcoZ (and/or DavidB) tomorrow about it, to see what sort of stuff we could add in the amount of time we have.

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

I'm going to assert that if this were the last bug standing, we wouldn't hold the e release for it, though it would be great to get.  Marking blocking-, wanted+.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> We don't have an WIP on this, so I would lean towards "no", but I could bug
> MarcoZ (and/or DavidB) tomorrow about it, to see what sort of stuff we could
> add in the amount of time we have.

Blake, do we have results of this, and bugs to go with them?

Comment 5

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

No, we dont…

Mr. Bolter, do you have any people who might be able to take this on?

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Is there another bug for this? (I seem to remember discussing it somewhere else)

Comment 7

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

I'm only aware of this: bug 929845
Not sure if totally related.