JA-SIG Day3 - Fluid

This is my notes. The official presentation slides will be at:

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Denver+2007+presentations

The Fluid Project is an international community of academic institutions, community source software projects and corporations working together to address the precarious values of usability, accessibility, internationalization, quality assurance and security within academic software projects. http://fluidproject.org/

• Vision:
• Advance the status of UI development ..
• Create a community of UX expertise
• ...
• Context
• Accessibility
• Usability
• uPortal, Sakai, Kuali and Moodle
• Approach
• Cross-project collab.
• Take a holistic approach by combining both tech and UX
• Social: community of UX /Technical: new program
• Design Deliverables
• heuristic and usability reviews
• baseline for usability and accessibility
• Designer's Toolkit
• ..
• go to Build:
  
• A Live Library of flexible UI components that can be used across applications
• ..

Designer's Toolkit

• Component Library
• UI Design Patterns
• UX Walk-through
• User Persona Library

Technology

• Unique challenge
• Based on Javascript, DHTML, and AJAX
• RESTful
• Loose coupling
  
• translation
  

Fluid Accessibility

• Web 2.0 will be accessible
• ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications
• AccessForAll for component meta data
  
• Ongoing toolkit accessibility support
• Design specific alternatives
• Fluid: Accessibility from the ground up

Reasonable Server Faces:
http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/rsfwiki/