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

[Adam Marshall]

I don't think the PDA view is particularily usable on a mobile phone. 

These days people expect / want mobile portal's to look like iphone apps; what the PDA view gives us is a cutdown view of the normal interface.

I don't think that one should change PDA to MOBILE although I would concede that the term PDA is somewhat outdated. I'm going to be slightly controversial here and also claim that the PDA view is also somewhat outdated

A better description for the PDA interface may be an 'frameless view' (except that Joe Average User wouldn't understand what this means).

I whole heartedly agree with Eli's views an using the word 'accessible'.

adam

PS Look at: http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2010/09/weblearn-now-available-on-a-mobile-phone/


| -----Original Message-----
| From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Eli Cochran
| Sent: 15 September 2010 18:33
| To: csev
| Cc: sakai-dev Developers; accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org WG
| Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Proposed PDA Portal Wording Change - SAK-
| 19061
| 
| 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.
| 
| 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.)
| 
| 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.
| 
| - Eli
| 
| On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:09 AM, csev wrote:
| 
| > Super - I agree with all of it - new proposal:
| >
| > Switch to Accessible / Mobile view
| >
| > Switch to full view
| >
| > I think "classic" makes much more sense if there is a "new" and "old"
| involved.
| >
| > /Chuck
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