RE: [chairs] New OASIS website layout - categories

["Considine, Toby (Facilities Technology Office)" <Toby.Considine@fac.unc.edu>]

We shouln't need to rely on a mouse-over.  IMHO, UI design that requires
non-accessible clues (i.e., non ADA compliant) usually indocates a deeper
problem. . .

tc

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 11:27 AM
To: David RR Webber
Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [chairs] New OASIS website layout - categories


David,

David RR Webber wrote:
> Team,
> 
> Is everyone finding the new 'find by Category' as confusing as I am?
> 

Yes! I was quite surprised by it and had to guess the probable location 
of my TCs.

If the categories confuse those of us in OASIS, I can only imagine their 
impact on visitors and more importantly, potential members.

A 'mouse-over' that shows the TCs in each category and the categories in 
alphabetical order would be an improvement.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

> I have to go to the "by name" option to find anything - especially my
> own TCs!
> 
> Also - the sequence is totally random - I'd prefer either
> 
> a) order alphabetically or
> b) group like things together - which appears to be the idea - but 
> missed...
> 
> Also - if we are going to do this - it would be much. much better if 
> we had a browse and drill-down style navigation - where you can see 
> what's in one of the boxes before you have to open it!
> 
> We could probably use the categories navigation as-is from
> registry.oasis-open.org and
> just put into a frame - if we were being clever here... some 
> brainstorming needed.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> DW
> 
> 
> 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/who/>
> OASIS Standards <http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php>
> How to Participate <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/join.php>
> Policies and Bylaws 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/who/policies_procedures.php>
> OASIS Technical Committees 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/overview.php>
> Committees by Name <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/committees.php>
> Committees by Category <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php>
>  ? Web Services <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=ws>
>  ? e-Commerce <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=ec>
>  ? Security <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=security>
>  ? Law & Government 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=lawgov>
>  ? Supply Chain
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=schain>
>  ? Computing Mgmt <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=cm>
>  ? Application Focus 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=appfocus>
>  ? Document-Centric 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=doccent>
>  ? XML Processing 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=xmlproc>
>  ? Conformance/Interop 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=confint>
>  ? Industry Domains 
> <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_cat.php?cat=inddom>
> 
> 


-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!