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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Tue, Feb 17 2009 10:55AM
Subject: A couple of quick questions about Webinar Software/Services
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I am researching accessible webinar software and services and have a
couple of quick questions.
1. Does anyone know what EASI uses. Their software seems to work fairly
well at least for the archived webcasts?
2. Does anyone know of any accessible webinar software or services that
offer the following features.
Audio/Video feeds - one way or two way. Live or archive captioning?
Screen/Slide sharing - can the content of the slides be accessed using
AT.
Accessible chat features.
3. Does anyone have any specific experience with Talking Communities TC
server or TC Community builder.
Our agency has approximately 3000 staff geographically distributed
across the state of Texas and are looking for the ability to conduct
meetings and trainings with people located at multiple geographically
distributed sites. We have a large number of staff who use assistive
technologies including screen readers, screen magnifiers, Braille
displays, video relay, etc. The software needs to allow access for the
presenter and the attendees at the on-line events, thus the
administrative interface and the user interface need to be accessible.
Thanks,
Mike Moore
DARS Accessibility Coordinator
(512) 424-4159
From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Tue, Feb 17 2009 11:50AM
Subject: Re: A couple of quick questions about Webinar Software/Services
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I believe they use the Talking Community technologies.
Jon
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>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:53:30 -0600
>From: "Moore, Michael" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Subject: [WebAIM] A couple of quick questions about Webinar Software/Services
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>I am researching accessible webinar software and services and have a
>couple of quick questions.
>
>1. Does anyone know what EASI uses. Their software seems to work fairly
>well at least for the archived webcasts?
>
>2. Does anyone know of any accessible webinar software or services that
>offer the following features.
>
>Audio/Video feeds - one way or two way. Live or archive captioning?
>Screen/Slide sharing - can the content of the slides be accessed using
>AT.
>Accessible chat features.
>
>3. Does anyone have any specific experience with Talking Communities TC
>server or TC Community builder.
>
>Our agency has approximately 3000 staff geographically distributed
>across the state of Texas and are looking for the ability to conduct
>meetings and trainings with people located at multiple geographically
>distributed sites. We have a large number of staff who use assistive
>technologies including screen readers, screen magnifiers, Braille
>displays, video relay, etc. The software needs to allow access for the
>presenter and the attendees at the on-line events, thus the
>administrative interface and the user interface need to be accessible.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Moore
>DARS Accessibility Coordinator
>(512) 424-4159
>
>
>
From: John E. Brandt
Date: Tue, Feb 17 2009 8:25PM
Subject: Re: A couple of quick questions about Webinar Software/Services
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I have a colleague at ATMaine http://www.atmaine.com who used Talking
Communities but discontinued because of accessibility issues and I believe
some problems with different O/S. He is now using Ventrillo
http://www.ventrilo.com/index.php
You may want to check out PEPnet who has been researching this question and
will have recent data - http://www.pepnet.org/
Other resources at DO-IT
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/accessdl.html
EASI's got info on their site - give them a call for specifics.
Also noticed this from AFB
http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=3&;TopicID=138&DocumentID=4492
~j
John E. Brandt
Web Design, Development, Consultation
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937