[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] All plug-ins: accessibility changes in wok.message

[Lucio Correia]

On 17-05-2016 17:55, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> There is an accessibility issue in WoK concerning all messages launched
> by wok.message method:
>
> https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok/issues/79
>
> Problem is that the message may disappear and the user might lose
> information.
> If we increase the timeout too much then the message becomes an annoyance.
>
> My proposal is to make *all* messages closeable by user interaction.
> This is
> made at this moment by the 'closeable' flag in the method:
>
> wok.message = function(msg, level, node, closeable, onclick)
>
> What I want to do is to get rid of the 'closeable' flag, together with
> the code that makes the message fade with timeout. After that,
> all WoK messages from all plug-ins would have the "X" icon
> to be closed manually.
>
> This will require changes in all plug-ins that instantiate any
> wok.message.*
> method. I am willing to do those changes too.
>
>
> Thoughts?
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Agreed!

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Lucio Correia
Software Engineer
IBM LTC Brazil