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UMA provides some crucial missing pieces of the puzzle. UNSD could stand up (or work with an externally hosted) UMA Authorization Manager (AM). With appropriate user interfaces, this would allow faculty, staff and students to manage not only their Access4All information itself but also to manage the policies around how and to whom subsets of that information are released. In addition, The USND Accessibility Program has worked with the Shibboleth/SAML team to add an attribute to assertions that the SAML Identity Provider issues when users access a SAML-protected resource. This attribute, access4allSet, carries a URL that points to that user's access4all information set on the USND AM. If the Service Provider/Relying Party is UMA-ready, they can initiate an UMA protocol conversation to obtain appropriately controlled access to the user's accessibility needs and preferences. If deontix.com then modifies their eText service to support the UMA protocol model, Madeline could finally take full advantage of the modal logic eText as originally envisioned. I
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