Call for Review: IndieUI User Context for web interface preferences

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

Today we published the First Public Working Draft of the IndieUI: User Context 1.0 – Contextual Information for User Interface Independence technical specification at:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/indie-ui-context/

Background:

"IndieUI" - Independent User Interface - helps web applications work better with different devices (such as mobile phones and tablets), different assistive technologies (AT), and different user needs. With IndieUI, web application developers will have a uniform way to design applications that work for multiple devices and contexts. IndieUI includes two technical specifications: IndieUI Events and IndieUI User Context.

IndieUI: Events defines a way for different user interactions to be translated into simple events and communicated to web applications. For example, if a user wants to scroll down a page, they might use their finger on a touch screen, or click a scroll bar with a mouse, or use a scroll wheel, or say "scroll down" with a voice command. With IndieUI, these are all sent to the web app as simply: scroll down.

IndieUI: User Context defines a set of preferences that users can choose to expose to web applications, and an API for user agents to access the preferences and listen for changes. Users can set preferences for features such as screen size, font size, and color. Users with disabilities can provide information about assistive technologies in use, indicate that the display is in an accessibility mode, and indicate what kind of subtitles and audio descriptions they need. Web applications can use this information to optimize the presentation without a requirement to target a specific device, operating system, or locale.

Comments:
Please send comments on the IndieUI: User Context Draft by 1 August 2014 either:
* via e-mail to the publicly-archived e-mail list <public-indie-ui-comments@w3.org>
* by filing an issue in W3C Bugzilla at <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=IndieUI&amp;component=IndieUI:%20Events&amp;version=1.0 >

Learn more:
To learn about IndieUI, see the Overview page at:
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/indieui (short: http://bit.ly/IndieUIo)
Requirements for IndieUI are at:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/indie-ui-requirements/
To learn more about this work and how you can get involved, see "IndieUI: Events expands user interface interactions" blog post at:
 http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/01/indie-ui_events_fpwd

To learn about other work related to mobile accessibility, see:
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/

About the URI:
The first URI above goes to the latest version of the specification. The "dated" version of this Working Draft is: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-indie-ui-context-20140626/> The difference between these URIs is explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking>

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Outreach
Janina Sajka, IndieUI WG Chair
Michael Cooper, W3C Staff Contact





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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

Received on Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:07:50 UTC