The Fluid Project: A Community for Inclusive Design

The Fluid Project is an open source project dedicated to improving the user experience of other open and community source projects. Fluid builds highly accessible, rich user interface components that can be reused across web applications. Fluid components are more than widgets. They encompass familiar user activities and workflows, providing improved ways to navigate, locate, and manage content on the web. Our goal is to establish a vibrant community for inclusive design, encouraging the use of user-centered design practices within open source software. To this end, we are also working on a designer's toolkit that will offer useful design, accessibility, and usability strategies and documentation. Colin will provide an overview of the Fluid community and how you can get involved.

Colin Clark, Technical Lead, Fluid Project, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto Colin Clark is the lead developer for the Fluid Project, a community dedicated to fostering usability and accessibility within open source projects. He currently develops user interfaces for several open educational projects including Sakai and uPortal. Colin has worked in the field of inclusive design and software development at the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre for ten years.