<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">new to this list... a colleague pointed out to me a couple of earlier posts on this<div><br><div>I'm a participant in the Fluid project (<a href="http://www.fluidproject.org">www.fluidproject.org</a>), aimed at providing pluggable UI components with good usability and accessibility baked in</div><div>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</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>any suggestions about approaches to this via openID would be very welcome</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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</div><div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Clayton Lewis</div><div>Professor of Computer Science</div><div>Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities</div><div>University of Colorado</div><div><a href="http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton">http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>