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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Oct 1, 2010 1:18PM

Andrew, could you speak to the use of speech recognition software (e.g., Dragon Naturally Speaking) with Adobe Connect? Has formal testing been done and documented? Any guidance for those of us using such assistive technology when using Adobe Connect?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 12:04 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Connect & accessibility

David,
I didn't indicate that the user interface isn't navigable with the keyboard - in fact it is, but only if you have some vision. You can tab to the chat pod and type and send messages, and you can copy the entire chat series and paste into a document on your system. I'm no t sure whether you tried and weren't successful, or if there was some other issue at play.

If a person has limited vision and uses a screen magnifier, since the interface doesn't send info to assistive technologies the screen magnifier's viewport location won't adjust to the focus position change which could make locating the focus difficult if a high-degree of magnification is being used.

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 David Farough
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:37 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Connect & accessibility

I attended the conference yesterday. There were some technical issues periodically during the conference. As Andrew indicated, the User interface is not navigable using the keyboard. If I did not have some useable vision, I would not have been able to get to the edit field in order to ask questions. The Chat window is a great resource which I was unable to use. It was very busy but I was unable to copy the text for future use. The conference was great and I benefited from attending. I will be glad to receive the information that will be sent to the participants. I hope that the chat text and all the links will be included .

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
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