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From: Hadi Rangin
Date: Oct 4, 2010 10:45AM

Hi Andrew,

I really don't want to repeat the same discussion that we had earlier this
year here at this forum publically unless you prefer it and find it
beneficial.
What you were suggesting at your presentation is not even a work-around
solution-- at least not from my perspective. You suggest the following to
make Adobe Connect accessible to screen reader users:

* Screen sharing -Screen sharing requires that the presenter
self-audio-describing information on your screen.
* Document sharing -documents can be shared in advance.

* VOIP -can be used accessibly, provided that captioning is available. Chat
pod can be used for speaking into the meeting.



Do you really expect that presenters would describe what they show or do
during their presentations? How many times end-users have on-time access to
the presenters to obtain the necessary documents in advance? How about the
on-the-fly web tour? How do I know who is in the room? How I can send a
private message to selected users? How I can read the text chat information
real-time or in a reasonable time?



I don't know how people use Adobe Connect in the higher education
environment because I can't use it but I see that Elluminate and Talking
Communities are used in a very fast pace and interactive environment and
users are required to interact promptly.



I think we all know that Adobe Connect is not accessible to screen reader
users and you admit it in your presentation and I like your honesty.



Anyway, last time I saw you talked about accessibility of Adobe Connect was
at the CSUN conference and it was over 6 months ago.

Would you be willing to setup a webinar on accessibility of Adobe Connect
with focus on screen reader accessibility in near future? I think there are
many people like myself who would like to learn more about the accessibility
features in particular for screen reader users in the upcoming Adobe
Connect.



Thanks & regards,

Hadi







----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kirkpatrick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Connect & accessibility


> 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
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> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
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