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a repository to track PhETs research into accessibility, or "a11y" for short
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Description Design Interface Ideas / Brainstorm #136

Open emily-phet opened 5 years ago

emily-phet commented 5 years ago

Notes from brainstorming in California - March 2019

dynamic description: designed complexity disconnect to implementation complexity. How to map communication tighter complexity of learning description preview while designing descriptions complexity of design doc, metadata mixed into actual descriptions How to know that things don't break JG: what about test driven development for descriptions

potential solutions. note not all solutions fix all problems (lightly ordered from easiest to hardest) make "static" a11y strings available to designers to change, run the sim, then commit. Organizing a11y string files so that it is obvious to designers what can be changed safely and easily. "simpler" design doc? BASE like tests when needed to ensure that descriptions don't change. google form for implementing simple static descriptions description course as an assistant in onboarding a11y view with "blanks" to fill in descriptions, perhaps machine readable output (like phet-io studio work) "preview" button seems key