IRMA made easy is a project about improving the usability, accessibility and overall user experience of the increasingly popular identity management app IRMA️. It is funded by NLnet foundation️ and carried out at iHub, Radboud University. This blog documents our underlying motivations, project activities and progress in chronological order. It features project deliverables as well as posts on related activities that also aim at making IRMA more user-friendly. Simply put, you have come to the right place if you are interested in how the IRMA user experience is improving.
One goal of the IRMA made easy project is to make IRMA easy for everyone, including users with disabilities. So, when the plan to develop a new IRMA app took shape in 2019, we set accessibility as a primary goal and got to work. By the time the new IRMA app was released in June 2020, we had implemented and tested many accessibility features. However, the journey did not end here....
If you can read this text, it means that the contrast between the text and its background is big enough for you to distinguish the foreground from the background. However, this does not necessarily mean that the contrast is also sufficient for others. When developing the IRMA app, we quickly learned that when it comes to accessibility (a11y) we cannot simply trust our own eyes. Instead, to ensure the app is legible also for people with weaker visual acuity, we followed widely accepted contrast guidelines....