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

[Eli Cochran]

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One approach that some web sites are taking is to test the size of viewport to determine whether a device should have the mobile, the tablet or the full view of a site. I can't remember what the various dimensions that are being used are. (And then the iphone came along with their high-res retina display and messed up all those numbers.) 
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- Eli 


On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Keli Sato Amann wrote:

> Hello,
> We've taken the approach of having iphone users, when visiting coursework.stanford.edu, being automatically redirected to coursework.stanford.edu/portal/pda. I think it would be very useful to have a link at the bottom that redirects them to the full, original view. And for schools that don't have that auto-redirect, having that link to "mobile" would be useful. Since users never have to type in "/pda," I don't have a strong opinion about changing that in the near term. 
> 
> (We were also thinking of setting up m.coursework.stanford.edu, but for some reason, our process for requesting aliases only let us pick m-coursework.stanford.edu. I'm sure there's a way around that, but auto redirect seems like a better option). 
> 
> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "csev" <csev at umich.edu>
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> Cc: "accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org WG" <accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:29:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Proposed PDA Portal Wording Change - SAK-19061
> 
> Thanks Steven, Eli, Brian, Adam, Matthew, and Nate.
> 
> This is what I think the new consensus is (and I like it):
> 
> - On the main page, call the link to /pda "Mobile" and on the /pda" page call it "full"
> 
> I completely hear and agree with the "mobile != accessibility" discussion.  I was so proud of eliminating iframes in the pda portal and probably personally overvalue the ultimate destruction of all iframes as a high priority accessibility issue.
> 
> I agree that PDA is "so 90's" and that "Mobile" is closer but not perfect.
> 
> The notion of m.ctools.umich.edu as preferable is a great idea and orthogonal.  All I am changing is the *default* text in these properties out of the box.  Out of the box (i.e. like demo and nightly) there is no m. so I will leave it /pda as that works.  
> 
> In reality almost no one leaves this text at the bottom of each page unchanged - so likely your properties already override this default information - and if someone sets up an m. route in their servers, it is a simple matter to switch the link in the property to m...
> 
> So I am feeling like we are approaching closure.  This proposal is also the simplest one so far.
> 
> As always more comments are welcome.
> 
> /Chuck
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Eli Cochran
User Interaction Developer &
Manager of User Experience Design
Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley

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    - John Maeda