STORY: As an IMAGE user who is blind, I want to easily access all of IMAGE's functionality, so that I can trigger IMAGE's functionality without having to navigate the standard browser extension UI

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STORY: As an IMAGE user who is blind, I want to easily access all of IMAGE's functionality, so that I can trigger IMAGE's functionality without having to navigate the standard browser extension UI #310

Closed jeffbl closed 1 year ago

jeffbl commented 1 year ago

Cyan has proposed an IMAGE Launchpad that pops up a window that lets the user easily select different IMAGE functionality. Work item is to:

[ ] Implement hotkey [ALT + I] that brings up Launchpad popup window
[ ] Add button for "IMAGE options" that brings up the existing options panel

Note that new buttons will be added for further functionality in the future.

@Cybernide Please attach wireframe for desired popup window.

jeffbl commented 1 year ago

Note additional button to add for using local graphics work item, separately #296

Cybernide commented 1 year ago

Because I'm not sure whether or not mydraft.cc eventually discards these saved wireframes, and I have no way to ensure that people won't tamper with the linked cloud file, I've saved the LaunchPad wireframe here

Instructions for loading the wireframe into mydraft.cc

Please let me know if instructions are unclear.

jaydeepsingh25 commented 1 year ago

While I am still working on it, this is how the UI looks when hotkey is pressed:

@jeffbl / @Cybernide Can you please clarify the following items:

The hotkey combination ([CTRL + ALT + SPACEBAR + I]) seems an invalid combination as per documentation here - this is because it contains a combination of Ctrl and Alt. What combination of keys should be used?
Do we need a heading at the top of this popup window? If yes, what text should be used for heading.
The new window should be a popup of fixed size(700*700), or do we want to display it in a new tab?
What should happen when the user clicks on "Use IMAGE graphic on my computer" - it opens a window explorer to select file, and once we select a file, we make a server call directly, or we display uploaded graphic first and then the user should click on "Get IMAGE rendering" button to get the rendering?

Cybernide commented 1 year ago

Answers to the first three:

Ah I misunderstood the requirements: my investigations suggest that ALT+SHIFT+SPACEBAR+I is unused by screen readers or common Windows or Macintosh OSs. (If anyone is reading this and knows otherwise, please correct me)
Heading should be "IMAGE Extension"
I would make it a pop-up window for now: I suspect that the blind and low vision community may prefer to arrange their tabs in such a way that a tab would disrupt that, but will need to verify (I'm noting this in our studies documents)

Have to think about the last one

Cybernide commented 1 year ago

I think we should display the uploaded graphic and provide them with a button to get the rendering.

jaydeepsingh25 commented 1 year ago

I further investigated it, and ALT+SHIFT+SPACEBAR+I is also an invalid combination. I came across this link describing the valid scheme for keys combination: This leaves us with a very limited combinations (If we want to include letter I): Alt +Shift +I and Ctrl + Shift + I are already chrome shortcuts, so we cannot use them. Alt+I and Ctrl+I are working for me, but I am not sure if these are used by any of the screen readers. @Cybernide , please suggest if it is advisable to use either Alt+I or Ctrl+I ? Or do you have a better key combination satisfying above scheme?

Cybernide commented 1 year ago

Single key. Well that's limiting. Thanks for digging up this link, though. I was hoping to avoid Ctrl+I because it's very nearly a convention for word processing applications. I think Alt+I would be the lesser of all these evils. Let's go with that.