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From: Karen Mardahl
Date: Oct 1, 2010 12:21AM

Hi Marc

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Marc Seguin < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I am working to develop an accessibility best practices guide concerning
> the use of Adobe Connect for a federal agency that I work for. In the list
> archives I discovered that there was a discussion back in November 2009 and
> Hadi had shared some good information about web conferencing products at
> that time. There have also been a few resources that I have found useful on
> Adobe's site and connectusers.com, but I was hoping that one of the
> knowledgeable people here might know of any others helpful places to look.
>

I attended the a11ysummit conference held yesterday using Adobe Connect. Why
not write to http://a11ysummit.com/ and ask whether you can send the
participants a few questions? I understood at least one blind user attended,
and got the impression there were others with low vision. I also heard one
blind couldn't/wouldn't attend because of the sign-up procedure that was not
accessible to him. They had (very impressive) live CART captioning. Not a
basic part of Connect, but it shows it can easily be integrated. I think
that conference experience should provide good insights.

regards, Karen Mardahl
http://flavors.me/kmdk & http://www.stc-access.org