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From: Karl Groves
Date: May 14, 2014 12:00PM

Greg:

We decided to go with Adobe Connect for a couple of reasons:

First, the other major players in this space, WebEx and GoToMeeting/
GoToWebinar have very significant accessibility issues, the likes of which
are really problematic.

Adobe Connect has some issues of its own. One SR user mentioned a keyboard
trap in some pods, which require you to resort to work arounds in order to
get to other pods. Also, as you mentioned, the chat pod pretty much just
barfs out all the text all at once and without much "structure", so to
speak.

Elluminate, which I would have considered as an alternative, is now part of
Blackboard and, as far as I know, can't be used on its own anymore. Either
way my experience with Elluminate hasn't been recent enough to be
comfortable with using it.

The same goes for other options. There are other meeting products out
there, such as LucidMeetings, which have taken positive steps for
accessibility. I actually have a LucidMeetings account. Unfortunately,
LucidMeetings is far better suited for meetings than Webinars, and doesn't
have the robust VOIP capabilities of handling as many concurrent users as
Connect can.

Ultimately, despite its flaws, Adobe Connect was overall the better choice.
Both for accessibility and for applicability.


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Greg Wocher < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Hello,
> I am curious as to why you are using Adobe Connect? The college where I
> attend my classes online uses this software and I have found it extremely
> problematic to use. For instance in the chat pod I can not read individual
> chat messages. It wants to read all of them at the same time. I am also
> unable to reliably read anything in the attendee pod. This is using JAWS or
> NVDA. Also this is with the adobe connect plug in installed. This
> question is just out of curiosity because I would like to be able to use
> adobe connect more proficiently.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Wocher
>
> Follow me on Twitter @GWocher
>
>
> On 5/14/2014 11:02 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:
>
>> Everyone,
>>
>>
>> To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, The Paciello Group will
>> be
>> holding 24 one-hour webinars on all things accessibility. The sessions
>> range
>> from beginner-to-advanced and are aimed at everyone from executives to web
>> developers.
>>
>>
>> Sessions start at Midnight, GMT, on May 15th. Our online schedule at
>> http://inclusivedesign24.org/ should do the automatic conversion for
>> you. If
>> not, you can enter the time(s) at the following website and get the
>> relevant
>> information for your timezone:
>> http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
>>
>>
>> To join the meeting, go to
>>
>>
>> https://my.adobeconnect.com/id24/
>>
>>
>>
>> Follow the event with the dual hashtags #ID24 #GAAD
>>
>>
>> Léonie.
>>
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>> If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before:
>>
>>
>> Test your connection:
>> https://my.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
>>
>>
>> Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>
> > > >



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