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From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Wed, Feb 18 2015 2:06PM
Subject: Blackboard Collaborate and JAWS?
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Does anyone have good insight on how well Blackboard Collaborate works with JAWS? We have a program that uses Collaborate, and a JAWS user who will be participating.

Thanks,
Todd

T.M. Weissenberger
Web Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology Services
University of Iowa

319-384-3323

From: Greg Kraus
Date: Wed, Feb 18 2015 2:12PM
Subject: Re: Blackboard Collaborate and JAWS?
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Collaborate uses Java, so presumably the user has a new enough version
of Java to have the Java Access Bridge installed automatically.

Once inside of Collaborate it is fairly accessible. Here are the
keyboard shortcuts for using Collaborate.

https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/Building_Blocks/Blackboard_Collaborate/Instructor/50_Keyboard_Navigation_Blackboard_Collaborate

Greg
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Greg Kraus
University IT Accessibility Coordinator
NC State University
919.513.4087
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http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Weissenberger, Todd M
< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Does anyone have good insight on how well Blackboard Collaborate works with JAWS? We have a program that uses Collaborate, and a JAWS user who will be participating.
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
> T.M. Weissenberger
> Web Accessibility Coordinator
> Information Technology Services
> University of Iowa
>
> 319-384-3323
>
> > >

From: Ilana Gordon
Date: Wed, Feb 18 2015 2:54PM
Subject: Re: Blackboard Collaborate and JAWS?
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Does anyone have a good process for remediating PPt presentations with
slide animations that are exported to PDF? We need to get the content to
show up from the various states in the slide animation to show as separate
slides in the PDF?

Ilana

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Greg Kraus < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Collaborate uses Java, so presumably the user has a new enough version
> of Java to have the Java Access Bridge installed automatically.
>
> Once inside of Collaborate it is fairly accessible. Here are the
> keyboard shortcuts for using Collaborate.
>
>
> https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/Building_Blocks/Blackboard_Collaborate/Instructor/50_Keyboard_Navigation_Blackboard_Collaborate
>
> Greg
> --
> Greg Kraus
> University IT Accessibility Coordinator
> NC State University
> 919.513.4087
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Weissenberger, Todd M
> < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> > Does anyone have good insight on how well Blackboard Collaborate works
> with JAWS? We have a program that uses Collaborate, and a JAWS user who
> will be participating.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Todd
> >
> > T.M. Weissenberger
> > Web Accessibility Coordinator
> > Information Technology Services
> > University of Iowa
> >
> > 319-384-3323
> >
> > > > > > > > > >

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Ilana Gordon
President
Word Wizards, Inc
8609 2nd Avenue, Unit 406-B
Silver Spring, MD 20910
*v.*301-986-0808 *fax.*301-986-0809
*Direct: 240-380-2639*
www.wordwizardsinc.com

From: Lucy Greco
Date: Wed, Feb 18 2015 6:45PM
Subject: Re: Blackboard Collaborate and JAWS?
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hello:
blackboard does work with jaws but i have found it to be hit and miss a
lot of the time. the screen reader user of course will need any slides a
head of time and should make sure they know how to log in and have there
system ready well before the events. but saying even that i have found that
i just could not get jaws to work in the meeting even though i had just
done so just a few hours before that i found it to be inconsistent in the
way it worked with jaws..
it has been about two years though since i did this and i asoom that it
has gotten better but i fear from what i here from others it is still hit
and miss if a meeting can go off with out a hitch. also make sure the user
gets some basic training in knowing witch window is the meeting and witch
is the plugin and witch ones to close and witch ones to leave open hope
this helps lucy

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Ilana Gordon < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> Does anyone have a good process for remediating PPt presentations with
> slide animations that are exported to PDF? We need to get the content to
> show up from the various states in the slide animation to show as separate
> slides in the PDF?
>
> Ilana
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Greg Kraus < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> > Collaborate uses Java, so presumably the user has a new enough version
> > of Java to have the Java Access Bridge installed automatically.
> >
> > Once inside of Collaborate it is fairly accessible. Here are the
> > keyboard shortcuts for using Collaborate.
> >
> >
> >
> https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/Building_Blocks/Blackboard_Collaborate/Instructor/50_Keyboard_Navigation_Blackboard_Collaborate
> >
> > Greg
> > --
> > Greg Kraus
> > University IT Accessibility Coordinator
> > NC State University
> > 919.513.4087
> > = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> > http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Weissenberger, Todd M
> > < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> > > Does anyone have good insight on how well Blackboard Collaborate works
> > with JAWS? We have a program that uses Collaborate, and a JAWS user who
> > will be participating.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Todd
> > >
> > > T.M. Weissenberger
> > > Web Accessibility Coordinator
> > > Information Technology Services
> > > University of Iowa
> > >
> > > 319-384-3323
> > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>
>
>
> --
> Ilana Gordon
> President
> Word Wizards, Inc
> 8609 2nd Avenue, Unit 406-B
> Silver Spring, MD 20910
> *v.*301-986-0808 *fax.*301-986-0809
> *Direct: 240-380-2639*
> www.wordwizardsinc.com
> > > >

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