accessibility

[Chris Messina]

I'm certainly open to that. Looking forward to hearing from the Fluid folks!
Chris

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Nate Angell <ixmati at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll let Clayton speak up too, but given my tangential relationship with
> Fluid, I would think it would be ideal if the OpenID folks could sit down
> with a few of the Fluid folks to discuss both how OpenID might best address
> accessibility issues AND how OpenID might be able to support user-centric
> accessibility preferences (for lack of a better phrase).
> As luck would have it, a few of the Fluid folk are near at least some of
> the OpenID folk as they are at Berkeley. I'm copying them on this message to
> see what they say.
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
>
> Thanks for the context Nate.
> On the one hand, we need usability help and best practices for OpenID
> generally (hence this list). We have a lot of existing behavior in the wild
> to look at, and we have a small group of people after a UX Summit that we
> held in charge of coming up with some recommendations for OPs and RPs.
>
> If the Fluid Project could suggest how we might engage with them on
> evaluating the existing approaches, and then move into making subsequent
> recommendations on the signin process that would be excellent.
>
> If we could then extend that work to cover SREG and the exchange of profile
> data from an OP to an RP, and what that experience should ideally look like,
> then that would be a great secondary task for the Fluid group to assist
> with.
>
> Where do we begin?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Nate Angell <ixmati at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Clayton, glad you posted to the list...I'm a member of the Sakai community
>> and had put it to the fluid folks that they might find value in joining the
>> OpenID community.
>> For the OpenID folks, please take Clayton's offer of accessibility help
>> seriously...the Fluid folks are some of the best experts you'll find.
>>
>>    --
>> Nate Angell
>> Director of Special Projects
>> rSmart
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>>
>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Clayton H Lewis wrote:
>>
>> new to this list...  a colleague pointed out to me a couple of earlier
>> posts on this
>> I'm a participant in the Fluid project (www.fluidproject.org), aimed at
>> providing pluggable UI components with good usability and accessibility
>> baked in
>> as part of this we have a big interest in making it possible for people to
>> associate information presentation preferences with their id so that they
>> don't have to keep respecifying this info, specifying it in different ways
>> for different sites, etc... this is a pretty big deal for a good many users;
>> browsers can do some of it, but not all, plus one isn't always using one's
>> "own" browser
>>
>> this is a long term strategic interest, with a good deal of history, eg an
>> ISO standard for specifying the preferences, but we haven't yet found a good
>> way to tie the info into a widely used id framework
>>
>> any suggestions about approaches to this via openID would be very welcome
>>
>> there are a number of accessibility folks working on Fluid, so if there
>> are particular accessibility questions coming from openID we may be able to
>> help, for example by saying something about screen reader views of things
>>
>>
>>  Clayton Lewis
>> Professor of Computer Science
>> Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
>> University of Colorado
>> http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton
>>
>>
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