My preferred option would be neither the new window (as it now is) nor a lightbox, but instead a side-by-side or top-and-bottom: opening a new pane in-page that shows the rendered view. I don't *think* that would have as many accessibility problems as a lightbox.
I should note: I honestly think the current pop-out preview is overkill -- I rarely (probably never) care about the page styling. (Which after all, some users are going to override with their own preferences.) Seeing my style's framing just gets in the way of the preview, IMO.
What I care about is the content that I've written, rendered properly. (This is much more important if you're using Markdown than with the WYSIWYG editor.) That works best in a side-by-side or top-bottom style, so I can see what I wrote and the way it renders next to each other. That's not an unusual approach -- for example, Discourse does its previews side-by-side, and I'm planning to implement that for Querki.
In a *perfect* world, the preview would update as you type, keystroke by keystroke. If DW was *only* using Markdown, I'd strongly advocate that, since there are now decent browser-side Markdown processors, but I suspect it's impractical (or at least, a very large project) in the current architecture. But it would be nice to have some sort of ctrl-keystroke to update the Preview with my current changes.
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I should note: I honestly think the current pop-out preview is overkill -- I rarely (probably never) care about the page styling. (Which after all, some users are going to override with their own preferences.) Seeing my style's framing just gets in the way of the preview, IMO.
What I care about is the content that I've written, rendered properly. (This is much more important if you're using Markdown than with the WYSIWYG editor.) That works best in a side-by-side or top-bottom style, so I can see what I wrote and the way it renders next to each other. That's not an unusual approach -- for example, Discourse does its previews side-by-side, and I'm planning to implement that for Querki.
In a *perfect* world, the preview would update as you type, keystroke by keystroke. If DW was *only* using Markdown, I'd strongly advocate that, since there are now decent browser-side Markdown processors, but I suspect it's impractical (or at least, a very large project) in the current architecture. But it would be nice to have some sort of ctrl-keystroke to update the Preview with my current changes.