[OpenID] [diso-project] OpenID Accessibility

[Nat Sakimura]

This is very good.
I am going to have a dinner with a professor of Tokyo Institute of
Technology who specializes on gerontechnology[1]. I will try to have a bit
of talk on this as well.

[1] For genrontechnology, refer to http://www.gerontechnology.info/ .

=nat

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Nate Angell <ixmati at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris's ideas on openid accessibility are interesting...another
> example of something that can be hung off a user-centric identity.
>
> I wanted to make sure folks were aware of the Fluid Project's work on
> open source, accessible, reusable javascript user interface
> components. You can see demos here:
> http://fluidproject.org/index.php/demos
>
> Fluid takes extra special care on accessibility issues.
>
> On Nov 2, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Chris Messina wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm reluctant to write about this, because I've been afraid of the
> > answer, but I wanted to broach the subject of OpenID Accessibility.
> > Google tells me that this issue has only been raised once before [1]
> > and it didn't seem to dredge up much of a response.
> >
> > With IIW coming up, I thought I might put in a request that
> > accessibility be considered.
> >
> > To this end, I'd like to throw out an idea on serving user preferences
> > according to accessibility needs... namely through the use of AX. I
> > can imagine an AX schema for accessibility that would allow an OP to
> > request that a high contrast version of a site be displayed, or that a
> > certain stylesheet be used for forms... While I imagine that much of
> > these issues should be handled by the user's browser, it seems to me
> > that OpenID through AX could make more specific requests of RPs to
> > alter themselves to the needs of a given user.
> >
> > I also wanted to bring up the issue around user flows, language and
> > the like... and what the experience is like for blind people when
> > they're bounced from one site to another in the OpenID flow... and how
> > we could make that flow better.
> >
> > Interestingly, I'd like to point out (and Derek can attest to this)
> > that better and more accessible designs often improve the usability
> > for typical users without special needs.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > [1] http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2008-March/004324.html
> >
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