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[Jim Fox <>]

You can easily detect a mobile browser (there are many tools to do that)
but you cannot detect a browser needing accessibility---they don't use
any special user agent strings.

Jim



On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Chris Hyzer wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:49:46 -0700
> From: Chris Hyzer 
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> To: Grouper Dev 
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> Subject: [grouper-dev] ui / accessibility / mobile / splash page
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> I added these lines to the Grouper UI redesign page per our discussion during 
> the design call today:
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> ·  We could have two UI paths in the same UI application: one which is a rich 
> application which might not be accessible, and one which is a very
> light application which will be accessible and mobile friendly.  The first 
> page of the application should be a splash page which is accessible and
> mobile friendly where the user can set a preference about which UI they want 
> associated with their account or which to use for this session. 
> Browser detection could help here too.  The accessible/mobile part could be 
> purely based on Grouper WS...
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> ·  Favorites or recent activity could be associated with the user in the 
> database (e.g. with membership attributes) so that it is easy for the
> user to setup tasks so they can quickly do their work the next time they use 
> the Grouper UI
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> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+UI+redesign+v2.2
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> Thanks,
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> Chris