From justin.obara.work  Wed Sep 17 17:25:13 2025
From: justin.obara.work (Justin Obara)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:25:13 -0400
Subject: Changes to group chat and mailing list
Message-ID: <626C3BD1-F2C8-4554-935B-9E206F45A016@gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,

As I mentioned earlier this summer there are some changes coming to the group chat and this mailing list.

Group Chat

We are in the process of migrating off of Matrix/Element and moving group chat over to Zulip. Please sign up for an account on Zulip as the Matrix rooms will be made read-only or removed in the near future. You can sign up for the new Zulip rooms using this link https://fluid-project.zulipchat.com/join/zip3p3yooemyis466tzjd6h7/

Mailing List

The mailman mailing list will be shutdown by October 11, 2025. We plan to retain a copy of the archive; however we do not currently have a plan to setup a new mailing list. Communication can instead happen in the Zulip channels as mentioned above. If there is a need for a mailing list or similar thing, we could look into groups.io <http://groups.io/> or using GitHub discussions <https://docs.github.com/en/discussions>.

Thanks
Justin 
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From justin.obara.work  Mon Sep 22 10:48:20 2025
From: justin.obara.work (Justin Obara)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:48:20 -0400
Subject: Community Meeting (Sep 23): Creating tools that foster design beyond
 empathy
Message-ID: <8DAADD17-B720-47C4-BACA-67919474B6A3@gmail.com>

At this week?s Community Meeting <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits> ( Sep 23, 2025 ) Niklas Frost will be talking about Creating tools that foster design beyond empathy. Please see the description for further details.

Description:

Discussing explorations in creating design tools that attempt to facilitate design processes that are more inclusive towards underserved groups, specifically blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. One of the projects is BlindBox which is a design kit aimed at co-creation of mobile interfaces with blind and visually impaired individuals. For BlindBox, we "converted" common UI wireframe elements into tactile elements that could act as translational objects between BVI  and seeing individuals.
 
Another project is a browser plugin that shows one element of a website at the time. It is meant to mimic the experience of BVI individuals using websites in a visual format designers are used to rather, than as an auditory format.
Links:
BlindBox: A Design Kit for Co-Creating Mobile User Interfaces with Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3743049.3748554>

Time:
2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Location:
Remotely: Zoom <https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/84955597918?pwd=phsalHsuBb1goiSM40IhEvEuq5dl05.1>
 
Please visit the Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits> wiki page, for more information including the schedule of upcoming events. 

Contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International?License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> and follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of?Conduct <https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11537403/Inclusion+in+the+Fluid+Community>. (Note: some demonstrated/presented or discussed software, hardware, research, tools and etc, may have their own license.)
 
Thanks
Justin
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