thanks Peter, I misinterpreted your earlier msg, in which it appeared
you were asking for gender not because you needed to, but because you
could (ie. it was in the schema and Yahoo would supply it)
When you dont have a gender, presumably you fall back on 'Dear Pat
Smith' in your salutations .....
paul
On 12/15/2009 3:06 PM, Peter Watkins wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:27:35PM -0500, Paul Madsen wrote:
If you dont have a pressing need for the user's gender, why ask for it?
Customer service -- it's nice knowing whether to address the individual as
Mr. or Ms. before picking up the phone or drafting a written note.
Our UI model is to always show individuals what data the OP sent, and always
give each individual the choice of deleting/unsetting the information, so
anyone can choose to have an un-gendered profile.
Socially I expect there's a risk here of upsetting individuals who do not
identify with either gender, but I would hope that such individuals would
use OPs that, like us, allow them not to declare a gender. It's a good
point, though. We haven't gone through UAT yet, but I should probably change
the unset gender label from "Please select" to "Unspecified" to more clearly
indicate that we don't need the info.
-Peter
On 12/15/2009 12:12 PM, Peter Watkins wrote:
Gender wouldn't normally be on my list, but since it's in AX Schema and
available from one of our two featured directed identity OPs (Yahoo), we
will be adding that to our user profile model and requesting it from OPs
when our users indicate that we may ask OPs for contact info.
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