[Building Sakai] Student Project Opportunity Sakai CLE/jQuery-UI

[Matt Clare]

Welcome back to North America's Fall/Winter Term,

Looking for a student project that allows students to work with jQuery-UI, creating an innovative solution but work from a prototype towards a clear easily assessable outcome?

The Sakai Accessibility Working Group is proposing that https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22621 could be such a project and is offering mentoring and encouragement to any student that wants to take it on.

The Customize Tabs page of the Preferences Tool in Sakai has been less than ideal for a number release of the Sakai CLE.  Recently an effort has been made to revise the interface to be "draggable" but the solution currently in trunk based on the http://fluidproject.org/ is not robust across modern web browsers and the ARIA information it sends to screen reading software (JAWS, NVDA, Voiceover, etc.) is inaccurate and excessive/noisy and there are some conflicting and nonfunctional access keys .

A better solution could be created using jQuery.  Knowledge of the jQuery library is applicable to all modern web development, and the jQuery UI Draggable/Droppable interactions offer a solution that would address the issues identified in https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22621 and emulate the new interface goals for the Customize Tabs page of the Preferences Tool. 

If you are an instructor or student that is interested please contact me at Matt.Clare at Brocku.ca or the accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org list.

Thanks,

.\.\att


  ::  Matt Clare
Manager, eLearning
  Centre for Pedagogical Innovation 
Part-time Instructor
  Interactive Arts and Sciences
Brock University, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada