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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Jan 10, 2015 2:59AM

Huge help, Mike!

Thanks,

Cliff Tyllick

On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, Mike Bicknell < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> A couple of years ago I tested Accessible Events, but found it didn¹t work
> for Macs. I¹m curious if that has changed.
>
> WSSB uses Microsoft Lync which is now included in Office 365 and free to
> Education. A few years ago, the Lync accessibility team came down to our
> campus for a week to make notes, ask questions, and to videotape. You can
> use a refreshable braille display with Lync. We use it to teach our
> distance learning math classes and it works fine. We even had a student
> download the Lync iPhone app and use it while in Hawaii on vacation. We
> are also beginning to use Lync for web meetings with professionals. The
> person who started the meeting can also record sessions and manage the
> videos themselves. The scheduler integrates with Outlook if that is a
> benefit.
>
> One problem Lync has is that there is no live captioning component as with
> Adobe Connect. One way to resolve this is to use a third party captioning
> company, who sets up a web page for the streaming captions. The third
> party captions typically need lots of cleanup, so for archived videos I
> don¹t prefer to keep the captions that are embedded in Adobe Connect
> anyway. With any third party captioner you will get the transcript which
> can be edited along with the video and create separate caption files from
> that text.
>
> Another difficulty with Lync for some presenters can be the complexity of
> the settings and preferences, though these are mercifully hidden from view.
>
> My apologies for the length. I hope this helps.
>
> Mike
>
> ‹
>
> Mike Bicknell
> Digital Learning, Research, and Development Coordinator
> Chief Information Officer
> Washington State School for the Blind
> 360-696-6321, ext. 133
> http://www.wssb.wa.gov
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/17/14, 11:10 AM, "Tim Harshbarger"
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> >What about "Accessible Event" by SeroTek?
> >
> >http://www.serotek.com/accessibleevent
> >
> >
> >It has been some time since I used it but when I did, it seemed to work
> >well using a screen reader--and the presentation materials in the browser
> >window seemed accessible. I gather it can integrate with other online
> >conferencing products, but I don't know much more about it other than
> >from the few times I did use it.
> >
> >