OpenID Accessibility

[Chris Messina]

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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