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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 1, 2010 8:06AM

Hadi,
I'm surprised to hear you say that you are not aware of any redesign plan. This was one of the featured points of my talk at CSUN in San Diego last year, which you attended. Perhaps you mean that you haven't seen a spec for the planned changes - I can't tell from your message, but it is public information that improvements are planned.

http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/files/accessibility/assets/adobe_connect_csun2010.pdf



Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Hadi Rangin
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:55 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Connect & accessibility

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

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Connect & accessibility


> 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
>
>