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From: Lucy Greco
Date: May 15, 2014 10:35AM

Well said:
I am proud to call you a friend. We need to keep trying if we don't let's
all just pack up our #a11y hat and go home. The sad thing is that what the
people that are complaining about is that this is not a presentation form
screen reader users and some of the presenters are screen reader users.
This event and an amassing one at that is for people who need to learn
about making a more inclusive web so stop focusing on how those of us that
know the content can get to it and lets focus on getting the #a11y news
out to as many devs as we can Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Inclusive Design 24, by The Paciello Group for GAAD

First, let me commend Adobe for its ongoing commitment to
accessibility, in terms of supporting organizations in the community
who are offering so much free content. It is unfortunate that
accessibility is often so much harder than it would appear.

Given all of the negativity about Adobe Connect being posted on this
list and on Twitter, and given Karl's responses to concerns, as
raised yesterday, I'd love to know what people *would* suggest that
TPG, or Knowbility (for that matter) should have chosen instead.

It's easy to criticize, I think, but perhaps much harder to come up
with a positive and workable solution.

As an example, while I participated on the phone in a virtual seminar
held yesterday, using Collaborate, all of the hoopla with Java
AccessBridge felt like too much work to me. Would those who are
frustrated have preferred that?

Who's got a positive contribution to offer? What's the best thing
going out there?

Yes, many of us in the blind community know of Talking Communities,
but I suspect that it is not as feature rich as necessary. But I'm
willing to be corrected.


I'm eagerly looking forward to knowing what the secret feature-filled
seminar platform is.

Best,
Jennifer