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Re: Accessibility reports of Web Conferencing products

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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Nov 3, 2009 2:45PM

Interesting idea Katherine.

If I am reading Hadi's message correctly, I understood him to state that he
was planning to report the findings of their research on this topic at the
Accessing Higher Grounds Conference http://www.colorado.edu/Atconference/
next week in Colorado. Here is the session I think he is talking about

Cotton Creek II: Usability and accessibility in Web Conferencing Tools:
Side-by-side comparison of four Web conferencing Tools, Hadi Rangin,
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Marc Thompson, University of
Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (from:
http://www.colorado.edu/Atconference/confsched2009.html )

I am hoping there will be a written paper coming out of this and other
presentation materials that would be of value to the folks in the distance
learning community.

~j

John E. Brandt
Accessible Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937 


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Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:38 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessibility reports of Web Conferencing products

You know, it seems like it would be great for all stakeholders to have
a webinar series or an IRC meeting about options for accessibility in
web conferencing & collaboration products, and allow folks like Andrew
from Adobe to present on the features of their platform and get user
feedback from our end - especially if we could put up logs or
summaries of each conversation somewhere. We could also invite makers
of 3D virtual platforms like Second Life to participate. We are
currently using the IDEAL webinar system in our office which when we
tested was the most accessible platform available, but we are
interested in other potential options.

Any interest in such an option? Could we come up with a way to do
this that wouldn't cost anyone?

Katherine Mancuso
Center for Assistive Technology & Environmental Access

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