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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Oct 1, 2010 8:51AM

I think this was the same conference I tried attending yesterday using
JAWS. The log in was quite accessible. Unfortunately, I was unable to
use JAWS to interact with the UI, which was a particularly troublesome
issue since I didn't seem to be getting sound either and I couldn't fix
the issue because I couldn't use JAWS.

Honestly, yesterday I wasn't certain if it was a technical or
accessibility issue since I kept finding information that indicated that
there were at least some accessibility features in Adobe Connect and I
didn't see anything that indicated it would not work with a screen
reader. So, I probably spent 2 to 2 1/2 hours trying to troubleshoot
the issue before I gave up.

I will say that I was glad to hear that the online conference was going
to provide captioning.

Tim
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karen Mardahl
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Connect & accessibility

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