Rich Internet Applications open a can of "user interfaces for all" issues. In India we have a large number of people who may be identified as print-impaired. I.e., people who can see but cannot easily make sense of the words/text
w3.org's WAI-ARIA recommendations help address some of the accessibility concerns, provided appropriate screen readers and such are made available. The case of the print-impaired is likely to push recommendations to be more semantics based so that is both the screen readers and the user interfaces can react to user contexts in a better way. On the other hand, it can become a considerable effort for developers to realize these recommendations in getting the web applications to be sensitive to these users. One way to understand the generalized context is by looking into how these issues can be addressed at the level of Web application development frameworks. Servelots is Bangalore based, working on an open source product/platform. The product is to address how communities can manage their information i.e., a Web application which is also a framework for configuring information management oriented Web applications. Effort now has been in using Python, Django, Mongodb, jQuery, ... Some of the essential features of this product are: Dynamically configurable forms and workflows, Cohabitation of multiple groups, workflows and communities, Accessible by non IT-savvy for configuring their information management needs, Extensibility of the framework and Accessible by a sizable print-impaired segment other keywords: UI design, xforms, bigtable, Ajax, foss, orca, scalable, mobiles, database, pantoto, indic, audio, video, social software, school information management, e-gov The project has one position open, for now, with kind of decent pay and certainly can simply afford many positions/contributions. Please send a descriptive note of interest to w...@servelots.com More announcements in March of an alpha release, repositories and issues. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
