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Re: Adobe Connect & accessibility

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 1, 2010 6:33AM

I don't know what the sign-up issue was, but that isn't part of Connect. The log-in for the current version of connect is fully accessible (it's an HTML page with 2-3 form controls, with labels) - once logged into an event like yesterday's screen reader users can listen to the discussion (via VOIP) but since the user interface is not screen reader accessible at present interacting with the meeting is very limited and usually occurs via an alternative means (e.g. since the chat interface is not screen reader accessible organizers will often set up an equivalent alternative conduit for questions to be submitted).

Re: captioning, Adobe provides a captioning extension that is free and easy to use. Meeting organizers do need to fund a captioner to actually do the captioning still. Also, the closed captions are recorded along with the rest of a recorded event.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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