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From: Rakesh.Paladugula@cognizant.com
Date: Mar 18, 2010 10:27PM

Hi Despain,

Skype is the instant chat messenger so far I found very accessible on
web. Both for normal chat and voice chat. As I myself is a jaws user I
tried with JAWS and NVDA and found it useful than any other provider. I
am not sure how far it is accessible on mobile.
I can make more clear to you why I found it more accessible if it is the
information you are looking for.

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Despain,
Dallas
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:51 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible chat clients

Thank you very much Mike. Do you know of any resources out there that
talk about what's desirable in an accessible chat client and techniques
for making chat accessible?

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Moore,Michael
(DARS)
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:21 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible chat clients

We tested AIM last fall and found it to work well with screen readers
and magnifiers. We did not do full compliance testing and concentrated
on the most common functionality that our users would need to send and
receive messages.

Mike Moore

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Despain,
Dallas
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:57 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] accessible chat clients

Does anyone have any updated resources on accessible chat clients be
they Web, desktop or mobile? I found
http://www.webaim.org/articles/archives/chats/ which is apparently
slightly out of date.

It doesn't seem like any of the big chat clients such as Yahoo
messenger, live person etc are doing much with it.

The best client I've used so far i is the desktop version of MSN
messenger which notifies the screen reader with a typing sound when a
person starts typing and notifies the person when a message comes in.

I'm mostly interested in web because we want to do in accessible chat
client both for Web and mobile web.

Thanks,
Dallas