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From: JAKE JOEHL
Date: Mar 17, 2015 9:10AM

I actually received a Google Hangouts invite late last year from a now former colleague at my volunteer job. He wanted to chat with me about something. I was able to download and install the plugin just fine, but it didn't work in Safari at the time. My guess is that this was a flash compatibility issue. But I have since had flash installed in Safari, so I might try again soon. But I also wanted to say that I took a medical terminology class a few years ago, and they used WebCT. I was still using Windows at the time, and I had several issues including a very inaccessible chat area.

Jake
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On Mar 17, 2015, at 7:24 AM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

How about you give Google Hangouts a try. I noticed there are some good accessibility improvements.

Regards,
Srinivasu Chakravarthula | @csrinivasu
Sent from my iPhone 5C

> On 17-Mar-2015, at 17:25, Michael Bullis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Thanks. This looks interesting. It appears that they mostly use it for
> customer service rather than for chat conversations among groups, but I'm
> going to speak with them. Also, if you're a business, just a heads-up, it
> costs about $1.50 per conversation so you'd better really be making some
> dollars to use it.
> In any event, I want to explore the use by nonprofit possibility.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Cliff Tyllick
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:09 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] HTML Chat Accessibility
>
> Try LivePerson. And be sure to ask them for the accessible version.
>
> A former colleague worked hard with them until their product was fully
> accessible to people using screen readers and could be purchased by his
> employer. I'm not sure they realized the value of his (free to them)
> collaboration, so it would be neat to have a new potential customer contact
> them and ask if they can provide an accessible chat interface.
>
> See what you discover!
>
> Cliff Tyllick
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Although its spellcheck often saves me, all goofs in sent messages are its
> fault.
>
>> On Mar 16, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Michael Bullis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> Good morning:
>>
>> I am the ED of an Independent Living Center.
>>
>> We are looking at starting a series of chat forums for online use and
> wonder
>> what specific chat platforms are accessible?
>>
>> I looked at HTML Chat and it doesn't appear to be accessible in real time
>> because the text didn't appear to change in a way that Jaws could see it
> and
>> speak the changes in real time.
>>
>> Any thoughts on which direction we should go?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Bullis,
>>
>> Executive Director,
>>
>> The IMAGE Center of Maryland
>>
>> Office:443-275-9394
>>
>> Cell:443-286-9001
>>
>> email: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>
>> website: www.imagemd.org
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