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

[Adam Marshall]

we're doing

 - announcements / motd
 - polls
 - evaluations
 - resources
 - sign-up

We use oAuth for access and have written a "Trusted Applications" tool for "My Workspace".

The following are ripe for mobilizing but (I think) they don't have Entity Broker support

 - schedule
 - news 
 - Forum

we dont really use Messages

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

adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Plourde
| Sent: 16 September 2010 15:15
| To: Sakai Dev List
| Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] [WG: Accessibility] Proposed PDA Portal
| Wording Change - SAK-19061
| 
| BTW, speaking of mobile devices...
| 
| My concern is that we might end up spending a lot of resources trying
| to bring the authentic Sakai experience to mobile devices. In my
| opinion, students should not expect the same features to be available
| on a mobile interface, but a stripped down targeted experience that
| focuses on key behaviors appropriate to a mobile environment.
| 
| For instance, I would not recommend to a student to complete a graded
| quiz on a cell phone, or any assignment that requires heavy writing
| online.
| 
| But I would expect a mobile experience to give me access to my course
| content, to the schedule of the class, to my messages and discussion
| forums, and to notify me when something happens. Any thoughts?
| 
| BTW, i'm not on the accessibility list, so i haven't CCed it.
| 
| Mathieu
| 
| On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Steve Swinsburg
| <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
| > We were actually discussing that we should add a link to take you to
| the mobile view at #ausakai10 this eve. So as the person who developed
| the 'switch to classic view' link, I am in favour of:
| >
| > Switch to mobile view.
| >
| > The mobile view is not particularly accessible so this need not be
| referenced. And agreed, PDA is so 90's!
| >
| > Cheers
| > Steve
| >
| > Sent from my iPhone
| >
| > On 16/09/2010, at 3:32, 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.
| >>
| >> 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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| >> . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .              .
|                     .
| >>
| >> Eli Cochran
| >> manager of user experience design
| >> user interaction developer
| >> Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley
| >>
| >> "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
| nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
| >>    - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >> _______________________________________________
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