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caciviclab / disclosure-frontend

DEPRECATED (We're working on the "odca-jekyll" repo instead) California’s online source for local campaign finance data
http://www.opendisclosure.io/
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Add inline help tool tips that link to FAQ articles where applicable #197

Open adborden opened 8 years ago

adborden commented 8 years ago

How can we improve on the FAQ? Is it possible to give the user additional contextual information about what they're looking at without dropping them in an FAQ? I think @tdooner really sums it up here.

I'm including some screenshots from the FEC site to illustrate one direction we can take this.

https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00003392/?tab=summary The little "book" icon represents a glossary term. On Beta FEC, it opens a sidebar so you can see the definition right in context.

screenshot from 2016-09-26 10-51-35

https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00003392/?tab=other-spending An explanation of where the data is coming from.

screenshot from 2016-09-26 10-52-53

cc @elinaru

elinaru commented 8 years ago

I think the fly-in definitions look-up panel is more than we should tackle right. Inline help tool tips would be more doable. Going to put together a quick mock-up.

elinaru commented 8 years ago

Mock-up showing inline help tool tip with link tog FAQ is here: https://invis.io/J48NM1DH2#/190014312_Desktop-Candidate-5-LocalList-Details

adborden commented 7 years ago

@elinaru thanks, looks great.

@sfdoran would you please identify terms and places where additional context text and tooltips might be needed?