[WG: Accessibility] [Building Sakai] Proposed PDA Portal Wording Change - SAK-19061

[Richwine, Brian L]

To meet accessibility standards, an accessible alternative would have to have all of the functionality of the full version of Sakai. Would the mobile view have all the functionality of the full Sakai? 

We need to make sure the user experience for users of any version of Sakai a great one for all users. If there are alternate portals, then those need to be as accessible as possible as well. 

Mobile devices, with their various user interface mechanisms, create new accessibility concerns. These would need to be considered and evaluated before an alternative portal could be declared accessible.

> If we really wanted to provide a UI link that helps everyone understand Sakai accessibility, maybe it would be better to think about a separate link that led to a short, well-crafted guide (in Help?) and divorce it from the full/mobile distinction.

Nate: The first link in the Help is a help page called "Accessibility". I'm not sure if a user experiencing accessibility problems would know to look there, or would be persistent enough to expend the energy to find it and read through all of it. I don't know if an "Accessibility Help" link located in the footer or somewhere would help or not.

-Brian

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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:04 PM
To: Eli Cochran
Cc: csev; accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org WG; sakai-dev Developers
Subject: Re: [WG: Accessibility] [Building Sakai] Proposed PDA Portal Wording Change - SAK-19061

Eli: The accessibility part also gave me pause (not only because it's
ungainly). If we really wanted to provide a UI link that helps
everyone understand Sakai accessibility, maybe it would be better to
think about a separate link that led to a short, well-crafted guide
(in Help?) and divorce it from the full/mobile distinction.

- Nate

On Sep 15, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Chuck,
> I'm confused by this proposal. I completely support that idea of replacing the term "pda" with "mobile", but equating the mobile version with accessibility is wrong.
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> It is true that for a few users the mobile version may be more accessible, mostly because it simplifies the UI. However, for most users at all levels of ability the full Sakai IS very accessible. (We've done a lot of work over the last few years to make it so.)
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> The focus of our efforts should continue to be on making the full version of Sakai fully and richly accessible, not creating an "accessible version" of the system.
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> - Eli
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> On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:09 AM, csev wrote:
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>> Super - I agree with all of it - new proposal:
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>> Switch to Accessible / Mobile view
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>> Switch to full view
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>> I think "classic" makes much more sense if there is a "new" and "old" involved.
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>> /Chuck
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