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From: Hadi Rangin
Date: Oct 1, 2010 8:00AM

Hi Deborah,

Andrew Kirkpatric and product manager for Adobe Connect are well informed
about the accessibility issues of Adobe Connect for screen reader users. We
had a series of communication and discussion with Andrew and his team on
this subject. They would love to make it accessible but I am not aware about
any redesign or new design plan. Andrew please let us know if there is such
plan.

I have conducted an accessibility evaluation on several Web Conferencing
Tools; you are welcome to read the result at:

http://bargirangin.com/conf/csun2010/
or
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/hadi/www/conf/csun2010/

Thanks,
Hadi

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> When I tested the keyboard/voice control accessibility of Adobe
> connect for my employers two years ago, my report to them said,
> "Adobe connect: no accessibility at all. This is somewhat
> surprising, since Adobe tries hard to be decent with
> accessibility, so I wonder if further communication with the
> company would reveal more information. But the help files say
> nothing."
>
> This obviously isn't helpful -- I don't know what it is about
> Adobe connect that I couldn't use. My guess is that I probably
> couldn't get into the base controls by voice at all, which
> meant that I couldn't test to see if anything beyond that initial
> startup was accessible. I know that my employers did some
> outreach to Adobe about accessibility, and I'm pretty sure they
> didn't hear anything.
>
> On the other hand, this was two years ago. I would be willing to
> believe things have changed.
>
> -deborah
>
>