Re: bug: hovering window obscures text

[Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:11, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 22:39, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On this page
>>>
>>>  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#closing-outline-sections
>>>
>>> a hovering window in the upper right corner obscures text.
>>>
>>> This is possibly, but not necessarily, especially so when you use large fonts.
>>>
>>> To reproduce, set the minimum font size in Firefox to the largest
>>> available setting.
>>>
>>> I wonder if a non-hovering solution is possible?  I know we discussed
>>> this before at one point, with several good designs.
>>
>> I’m not familiar with the prior discussions.  The current design seems
>> okay to me—notwithstanding the flaw you mention—because it strikes a
>> good balance between making the TOC easily accessible and minimizing
>> the amount of space it takes up.  Of course, this is predicated on the
>> assumption that people actually want to use the TOC, and often enough
>> to justify it taking up that space.
>
> Considering that Samuel is making his argument from accessibility
> perspective, "Accessibility" is one another predicate that is missing in
> your assumption.

I’m not sure how accessibility is hindered, given that the contents of
the page are still perfectly accessible.  All the fixed TOC does is
obscure a very small portion of them on occasion, which can be
rectified by scrolling.  I would call that inconvenient, not
inaccessible.  Unless there’s more happening here beyond what I’ve
seen, that is.

Aankhen