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Date:      Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:39:45 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 262271] FreeBSD documentation: please consider having sidebars to the left, not the right, of content
Message-ID:  <bug-262271-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 262271
           Summary: FreeBSD documentation: please consider having sidebars
                    to the left, not the right, of content
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/549007
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: accessibility
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com

Created attachment 232185
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Screenshot: sidebar moved from right, to left

Compare the screenshot at bug 262270 comment 0 with the shot attached here.=
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Moving the sidebar from right, to left, will (at least) alleviate the
accessibility aspect of 262270.=20

More generally
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>From <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/549007>:=20

> One collapsible sidebar: OK
>=20
> Two sidebars, with or without collapse: less usable.
>=20
> Two sidebars at a **distance** from each other: far less usable, and the=
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> negative effect of distance is worse whenever the user aims to perform=20
> dual actions involving both sidebars. Actions such as scrolling,=20
> clicking, collapsing, whatever =E2=80=A6 IMHO it's simply not good UX.
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> (This is the reason for me having a user style that aims to keep=20
> the two sidebars **adjacent** to each other.)

Thanks

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