Haven’t looked at the original version of this chart in years but here are my
Initial impressions:
- It’s pretty well done and laid out, coming from the print design sector i can see that this was a lot of work and a lot of care went into it.
- The overall color seems very grey. I guess that is cause i don’t have an HDR screen but it would be nice if the file works well on SDR screens too. A darker (less grey) background would help already, currently it’s not easy to distinguish the foreground from the background.
- In the market branch, some boxes have their indicators at the bottom?
- Adv. (i guess that is short for “adversarial”?) Broker relations has a different font color and the legend does not mention what a different font color means.
- It took me until the next they when i looked at this thread again to understand why it’s called “Interactive”. I opened it in google drive and in the preview there, the hyperlinks don’t exist. (Though they work in the readme, i guess cause there they are text based.) After downloading the file and opening in chrome or acrobat, when hovering the boxes only your cursor changes. I guess i kinda get desensitized to cursor changes cause that happens constantly and is different per platform, OS, program and browser. It would be nice to have some indicatior like in a browser where in the lower left you see where a link leads. In chrome it directly opens the link target and replaces your current tab, in acrobat when clicking on one of the boxes it opens a popup window that shows you only the main domain name (e.g. wiki.eveuniversity.org) instead of where exactly it leads.
I guess the accessibility generally could be improved by moving to a website instead of using the interactivity of the PDF format. (Having worked with it for years and having a bit of technical insight of how it works - I’m regularly surprised that the PDF format in general hasn’t collapsed into a singularity yet.)
It seems PDFs can be converted to HTML via acrobat but the file is password protected so i can’t test it myself. While that could be a quick and easy (and knowing the PDF format, probably dirty) solution, in the long term moving to a website has whole host of potential other benefits. Sadly that would require a lot of work and i can totally see why that would be out of scope for now. At least it’s already in Illustrator and could easily be exported to SVG and embedded into a canvas element.
Good work o7