[JOB] Accessibility Research and Product Development

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, etc.

Some of the essential features of this product are:
Dynamically configurable forms and workflows,
Cohabitation of multiple groups, workflows and communities,
Accessible to non IT-savvy for configuring their information management needs,
Extensibility of the framework
and
Accessible to 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 a position open and hopefully will interest interns
and visitors too. Contact: dinesh@servelots.com

More announcements hopefully by April of an alpha release,
repositories and issues.