Overview
Executive Summary
The paragraph text editor is deliberately limited to a small range of formatting options. This has allowed the website to develop and maintain a high level of consistency in the way paragraph text appears.
However, in the user survey completed in Sept 2010, over 40% of users requested that the functionality be enhanced to accommodate additional formats.
Following a period of consultation with the user group on what additions are required (via our wiki), it’s clear that two further content types need to be accommodated:
- Citations
- Foot notes
Latin also needs to be added to the existing language fuction within the RTE.
Inaddition it would be highly desirable to also include quotations as a new content type and address some outstanding bugs.
It should not be assumed that citations should automatically appear as italics. It has been well documented that these can cause issues for visitors with dyslexia compromising the accessibility of the content.
Discussion thread on this topic from Polopoly support wiki - https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/x/-JgqBQ
Business Objectives and Project Deliverables
No | Description | New or Changed (Y/N) | Priority | Success criteria |
O1 | Enhance the current rich text editor with functionality to accommodate formatting three further content types. | N | ||
| D1.1 | Investigate how other website format citations other than in italics. | N | M | A format/style is recommended that's clear and understandable |
| D1.2 | Develop the rich text editor (RTE) so that users can assign different styles to specific areas of content. (Citations and Footnotes) | N | M | Users can easily style their content |
| D1.3 | Add Latin to the list of languages available via the language tag button | Y | M | Users can tag Latin as a language |
| D1.4 | Develop the rich text editor (RTE) so that users can assign different styles to specific areas of content (quotations) | Y | HD | Users can easily style their content |
| O2 | In addition to addressing the above points with the RTE, we are also looking to fix the following issues | |||
| D2.1 | Remove the additional character space that appears automatically when text is paste into the RTE field | Y | HD | No space appears at the beginning of the text field when the text editor element appears |
| D2.2 | Investigate if the 'pop up' window that appears when pasting, can be handled in a more gracefully manner reducing the number of click required and time on task. | Y | HD | No pop up window is required when cutting and pasting content from any other source |
| D2.3 | Investigate the following issue: When a paragraph is styled as 'Introduction' and also contains words that are tagged, when the 'Introduction' style is turned off, not only do the tags themselves go away, but the words that were tagged completely disappear. | Y | D | 'Introduction' style can be turned on and off without affecting existing tags or words associated |
| D2.4 | Investigate the following issue: The final word in a paragraph element cannot be tagged. | Y | D | All words within a paragraph element can be tagged individually or in groups. |
Scope
Deliverables 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 are manadatory and if time remains the developers will look at the highly desirable actions in 1.4, 2.1, 2.2 and then the desirable actions, 2.3 and 2.4.
Category
This is a funded project.