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From: Steven M. Sawczyn
Date: Dec 16, 2014 2:39PM

As a blind guy, accessible meeting platforms have been something I've been
struggling with for years. Recently, I was told of a service that, so far,
is the absolute best I've come across. The service is called Lucid
Meetings: http://www.lucidmeetings.com . Why do I like it?

* Accessible agendas can be created before the meeting, modified
during the meeting and distributed after the meeting in a number of formats
including HTML, Word and a few others I believe. What stood out to me
particularly is that heading hierarchy is used to show the relationship
between items and sub items, etc…

* Meeting notes are automatically associated with the current agenda
item under discussion.

* Lots of accessibility love has been given to the rich text editor
used to create notes, agenda items, to-dos, motions etc.

* As hinted at above, interactive motions can be introduced and
voted on during meetings, also accessible.

* The integrated chat system, which allows for group chat or
one-to-one chat works extremely well and even uses ARIA to cause new
messages to automatically be read.

* Speaker queue and attendance lists are accessible, this could be
especially handy for webinars, etc…

* Presentation controls seem extremely accessible allowing me to
control the meeting, speaker queue, agenda items, on-the-fly creation of
motions and notes, etc…

* Lucid currently has a number of integrations including

o phone/VOIP bridges,

o DropBox which makes it really easy to import PowerPoint and other
presentation materials,

o Confluence for exporting meeting records to Confluence spaces,

o Probably a few I’m not thinking of off the top of my head.

* Ability to send out a poll to participants to determine the best
time to schedule the meeting, i.e. to allow participants to select available
times.

* Ability to send an accessible survey after the meeting.

* Really awesome accessibility statement (such things really do
matter to me): http://www.lucidmeetings.com/docs/accessibility-statement

* Accessible training and documentation materials.



I’ve only been using Lucid for a short time, but clearly I’m already a big
fan. I’m also very encouraged by responses I’ve received from the company
which to me, show a willingness to work with people and to get any existing
issues resolved.



If anyone has any specific questions about Lucid, I’d be happy to answer off
list.



Thanks and hope this helps,



Steve



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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible Webinar / Meeting products?



we have been working with bluejeans here and love it they have a good base

of access and are constantly adding even more my current favorite







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Lucia Greco

Web Accessibility Evangelist

IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration

University of California, Berkeley

(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn <
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wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> My prime contractor uses WebEx quite a bit and I am able to use it quite

> well with JAWS. I believe I once used it with the Macintosh and VoiceOver

> also. Obviously the screen/powerpoint sharing is inaccessible, but unless

> you are going to use Microsoft Lynbc I expect that the Powerpoint sharing

> will never work great.

>

> Best wishes,

>

> Jonathan

>

>

>

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 14:29, Karl Groves < <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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>

> > Wondering if anyone has any recommendations on accessible Meeting/

> > Webinar products, either ones you love or ones you hate. Here are a

> > few I've been looking at.

> >

> >

> > Clickmeeting: <http://www.clickmeeting.com/>;
http://www.clickmeeting.com/

> >

> > Zoho Meeting: <https://www.zoho.com/meeting/>
https://www.zoho.com/meeting/

> >

> > Webex: <http://www.webex.com/>; http://www.webex.com/

> >

> > GoToMeeting <http://www.gotomeeting.com/>; http://www.gotomeeting.com/

> >

> >

> > These look pretty cool because they're based on Google Hangouts

> >

> > Business Hangouts: <https://business-hangouts.com>
https://business-hangouts.com

> >

> > Webinars OnAir: <https://www.webinarsonair.com>
https://www.webinarsonair.com

> >

> > --

> >

> > Karl Groves

> > <http://www.karlgroves.com>; www.karlgroves.com

> > @karlgroves

> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/karlgroves>;
http://www.linkedin.com/in/karlgroves

> > Phone: +1 410.541.6829

> >

> > Modern Web Toolsets and Accessibility

> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uq6Db47-Ks>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uq6Db47-Ks

> >

> > <http://www.tenon.io>; www.tenon.io

> >
> > http://list.webaim.org/

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