Text of menu items spills over into the page area when increasing text size ...

[Ferdinand Soethe <sa...@soethe.net>]

To reproduce:

Load any Forrest page (http://forrest.apache.org/index.html)
Click +a repeatedly
Watch menu item 'Documentation' grow into the page text area.

Is this a known problem, should I report this in Jira?

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Ferdinand Soethe

Re: Text of menu items spills over into the page area when increasing text size ...

[Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>]

Ross Gardler wrote:
...
> On a slightly off topic note, since you mention visually impaired users, 
> I keep thinking a cool feature for Forrest would be a "voice" 
> representation of Forrest content. That is generate a version of the 
> content to drive a voice synthesiser. Does anyone have any experience of 
> the relevant technologies?

http://www.voicexml.org/specs/multimodal/x+v/12/
http://my.opera.com/community/dev/voice/

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
             - verba volant, scripta manent -
    (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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Re: Text of menu items spills over into the page area when increasing text size ...

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
> Jonathan Sidarous wrote:
> 
> JS> If you click it enough times, you can get anything on the
> JS> table of contents to spill over into the page text area. I'm not
> JS> sure that you could keep it all within the color background of the
> JS> TOC without eventually becoming unreadable.
> 
> I agree. But increasing size is a major feature for visually impaired
> people and they often need to increase the size quite a bit to read a
> page.

Accessibility should be a major consideration for a tool like Forrest. 
And this is an important point.

On a slightly off topic note, since you mention visually impaired users, 
I keep thinking a cool feature for Forrest would be a "voice" 
representation of Forrest content. That is generate a version of the 
content to drive a voice synthesiser. Does anyone have any experience of 
the relevant technologies?

> So how to deal with that? For now having the menu area grow with the
> font size might help.

I'm not sure if that can be easily done with the current skinning 
system, perhaps Thorsten can provide a hint.

Ross

Re: Text of menu items spills over into the page area when increasing text size ...

[Ferdinand Soethe <sa...@soethe.net>]

Jonathan Sidarous wrote:

JS> If you click it enough times, you can get anything on the
JS> table of contents to spill over into the page text area. I'm not
JS> sure that you could keep it all within the color background of the
JS> TOC without eventually becoming unreadable.

I agree. But increasing size is a major feature for visually impaired
people and they often need to increase the size quite a bit to read a
page.

So how to deal with that? For now having the menu area grow with the
font size might help.

--
Ferdinand Soethe

Re: Text of menu items spills over into the page area when increasing text size ...

[Jonathan Sidarous <si...@gmail.com>]

If you click it enough times, you can get anything on the table of contents 
to spill over into the page text area. I'm not sure that you could keep it 
all within the color background of the TOC without eventually becoming 
unreadable.

On 4/18/05, Ferdinand Soethe <sa...@soethe.net> wrote:
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> Load any Forrest page (http://forrest.apache.org/index.html)
> Click +a repeatedly
> Watch menu item 'Documentation' grow into the page text area.
> 
> Is this a known problem, should I report this in Jira?
> 
> --
> Ferdinand Soethe
> 
>