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From: Léonie Watson
Date: May 14, 2014 1:08PM

Karl Groves wrote:

"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."



For any keyboard users reading this, you can extricate yourself from this by using Control f6 to cycle between the different pods, and Control space to move to the menubar at the top.



Léonie.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karl Groves
Sent: 14 May 2014 19:00
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Cc: Léonie Watson
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Inclusive Design 24, by The Paciello Group for GAAD



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.


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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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