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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Sep 13, 2011 7:33AM

Jim, have you looked at Yahoo Groups? Yahoo has done great accessibility work with their email; I haven't evaluated Groups, but it does allow attachments, so it might be worthwhile to check out.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jim Allan
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:57 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Need: accessible discussion group file sharing platform

Hi All,
I have a group (~25) of braille transcribers who would like to have a closed discussion list that allows file sharing and is accessible.
Google groups used to work pretty well, but they have removed the file sharing. Switching between interfaces (groups and docs) is not going to work for these folks. Does anyone out there know of such a tool - simple, easy to use, limited features, and accessible? Oh, and Free.

I have googled but can't seem to find the right terms to eliminate brain storming, live collaboration, etc. the minus list is longer than the actual search term list...but not finding anything that fits the bill.
Hoping the crowd will help point me in the right direction.

Thanks
Jim
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Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator & Webmaster Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315    fax: 512.206.9264  http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964