(Floe) UI Options features and functionality list

Introduction

This list evolved out of an ongoing brainstorm of UI Options configurations, features, and functionality. First-level items (bolded) are the general activities that UI Options could integrate. Some of these don't necessarily fit well with scope of UIO. Second-level items are reminders, descriptions, notes, or examples of the activities and are not intended to be exhaustive.

Features and functionality

General

• Simplifying presentation/content *
  • Fewer distractions (less stuff)
  • Streamlined content (clearer structure)
• Language assistance
  • Definitions, translations, etc.
• Annotations
  • + export of annotations
• Page export
  • Printing
  • eBook/PDF
  • Other platform
• Removing health hazards
  • E.g., seizures

Trans-modalities

• Easier/possible to listen to visuals/text
• Easier/possible to see audio *
• Easier to see images
• Visual interpretation of text

Consumption

• Easier readability *
  • Making text/images/etc. larger (scaling considerations: should paragraph and header texts scale at the same rate?)
  • Contrast and colour adjustments
  • Typeface adjustments
• Content orientation

Interactions

• Identification of links *
• Easier interactions with interactables *
  • Larger inputs, etc.
  • Enhanced feedback (e.g., audio)
• Alternative navigation *
  • E.g., different menu interactions
• Keyboard interactions *
  • Key bindings, hotkeys
• Alternative interfaces
  • Speech recognition
• Reduced time dependency
  • Interactions (e.g., status fadeouts)
  • Content (e.g., audio/video playback)

Other considerations

• Persistent profiles *
• Prepackaged configurations/profiles

Priority features and functionality, drilled down (operationalized preferences)

Easier readability

• Text size (+ icons)
• Image size? Option to lock scaling with text? (i.e., w/ rest of page)
• Contrast
• Line spacing
• Type style

Full list of features, ordered

Level 1

• Full page size
• Text size
• Text style
• Contrast
• Line spacing

Level 2

• Image size
• Image visibility
• Type color
• Letterspacing 
• Headers color
• Headers size
• Links color
• Links size 
• Underline links
• Form items size
• Disable flashing objects
• Avoid italics
• Avoid allcaps

Identification, tracking, orientation

• Mouse cursor highlight
• Text cursor highlight
• Focus highlight (esp. input field)
• Link highlight
• Emphasis of structural elements
• Header size
• Table of contents
• Input highlight/emphasis (for identification)
• Constant tooltip visibility

Full list of features, ordered

Level 1

• Table of contents
• Focus highlight (both in forms and in table cells)
• Emphasis on structural elements

Level 2

• Mouse cursor highlight
• Text cursor highlight
• Headers color
• Headers size
• Links color
• Links size
• Underline links
• Form items size
• Constant tooltip visibility

Interaction w/ interactables

• Input sizes (for mouse clicking)
• Audio/visual feedback on interaction
• Reduced time dependency
• Focus & link highlight

Full list of features, ordered
Level 1

• Links size
• Underline links
• Buttons (and clickable areas) size
• Focus highlight (both in forms and in table cells)
• Form items size

Level 2

• Links color
• Buttons (background) color
• Add icons to textual options
• Hover effect on links and buttons
• Hover effect on table cells
• Aural feedback to interactions
• Visual feedback to interactions
• Menu design (provide several presets for menu)
• Disable time control for processes
• Include search into the page
• Keyboard alternative to voice interactions
• Simplify the video interface (?)
• Simplify the audio player interface (?)

Keyboard interactions

• Keybindings & hotkeys (+ tips for keys, e.g., constant visual cheat sheet) (e.g., skipping to headers, bindings for UIO like text size)
• Tab order
• Creating groups/containment for elements (e.g., tabbing to navbar, and having to press enter to get to elements)

Full list of features, ordered
Level 1

• Enable hotkeys
• Tab highlight

Level 2

• Customize keybinding
• Customize hotkeys
• Form items size
• Assistance to typing
  • Autocomplete in input fields
  • Dictionary
  • Spelling
  • (Grammar?)

Alternative navigation

• Skip links?
• Changing menu behaviour
• Table of contents (page-wide & site-wide)
• Hotkeys for page and site navigation

Full list of features, ordered
Level 1

• Table of contents
• Menu design (provide several presets for menu)
• Enable hotkeys
• Include search into the page

Level 2

• Customize keybinding
• Customize hotkeys
• Add icons to textual options
• Keyboard alternative to voice interactions

Simplification

Full list of features, ordered
Level 1

• Presets
• Contrast
• Table of contents
• Emphasis on structural elements

Level 2

• Image visibility
• Disable flashing objects
• Display the layout structure
• Visibility of columns
• Display only headers
• Distance between columns
• Margins width/height
• Favorite contents (from table of contents, and reassemble contents)
• Dictionary
• Grammar
• Textual annotations
• Voice annotations
• Simplify the video interface (?)
• Simplify the audio player interface (?)