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Meanwhile, the Accessibility Program at USND has pioneered the use of self-assessment tools that allow students like Madeline to define in a structured way the full range of needs and preferences with regard to online services and resources. They, too, know of ISO/IEC 24751, and the output of the self-assessment tool is an information set conformant with that standard. They even have learning management systems that support the IMS Access4All V 3.0 specification that complements and supports ISO/IEC 24751.
It seems that most of the pieces are in place, but what is lacking is a way for Madeline to selectively convey that information to the online provider
Proposed Improvements
. Madeline is also hearing impaired, but that fact is not relevant to the modal logic eText, and she would rather not release information like that since it is irrelevant to the particular transaction at hand. All parties want to do the right thing, yet the problem remains unsolved.
Proposed Improvements
UMA provides the missing pieces of the puzzle–UNSD could stand up an UMA Authorization Manager. With appropriate user interfaces, this would allow faculty, staff and students to manage not only their Access4All information itself but also manage the policies around how and to whom subsets of that information are released. If deontix.com then modifies their eText service to incorporate the UMA protocol model, Madeline could finally benefit from the modal logic eText as intended all along.
Solution Scenario
Solution Flow
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