User Interface Façades: Towards Fully Adaptable User Interfaces

Created: 2021-11-25T19:50:33-06:00

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Hutchings and Stasko: proposal to allow cropping a window to a set rectangle, cloning other rectangles, and arranging these fragments of existing windows on to a new display.

Facades are then selecting a region of interest from a window, and placing them on a facade palette.

Original windows render as normal but the clipped region is copied to where facades are placed.

Interacting with a facade proxies the events back to the original window.

Accessibility frameworks: allow exposing information about where widgets are for use by accessibility frameworks

Using accessbility framework data to implement non-mouse navigation of facades