Re: bug: hovering window obscures text

[Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com>]

(Sorry for replying to my own message.)

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:26, Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Poking around a little shows that the current design is entirely
unusable via keyboard.  Now that does seem like a gamebreaker,
accessibility-wise.

Aankhen