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From: chagnon
Date: Thu, Feb 10 2022 1:06PM
Subject: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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I know this has been asked before, and I've looked through the list
archives, but the most recent thread I found was in 2016, and things have
changed so much since then.

We're reviewing our own platform and software for online live video
conferences. Any thoughts about accessibility in any of the major
brand-named options, such as:

* Zoom

* Zoom Professional

* WebEx

* Go To Meeting (Log me In)

* ZoHo Meeting

* BlueJeans

* Other?

Thanks,

-Bevi

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From: David Engebretson Jr.
Date: Thu, Feb 10 2022 1:11PM
Subject: Re: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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I've had success with Zoom and WebEx using a screen reader. I haven't tried the others you listed in years...

Thanks!
David

From: David Farough
Date: Thu, Feb 10 2022 1:44PM
Subject: Re: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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I have to say that for me Zoom is best.
There are shortcut keys to go to the chat and other areas of the application.
Sound quality is good and easy to record content.
It has a lot of good features.

From: L Snider
Date: Thu, Feb 10 2022 1:45PM
Subject: Re: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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From the people I know who use screen readers daily, they still prefer Zoom
(as of me writing this-things change!).

Cheers

Lisa

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> I've had success with Zoom and WebEx using a screen reader. I haven't
> tried the others you listed in years...
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> Thanks!
> David
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From: Karen McCall
Date: Thu, Feb 10 2022 1:56PM
Subject: Re: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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Zoom!

They now have on-board captioning, lots of keyboard commands and now JAWS supports hearing the screen reader in one ear and the zoom content in the other.

I've used Teams but find it not as intuitive as Zoom and I have so many Teams accounts/conversations/meetings with different logins that it gets confusing and sometimes I can't access one Teams account/session or can't find the one I want. Zoom keeps it simple!

WebEx and GoToMeeting haven't caught up with Zoom...or Teams and I wouldn't recommend them.

Cheers, Karen

From: Jared Smith
Date: Thu, Feb 10 2022 2:10PM
Subject: Re: [EXT]Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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We've also found Zoom to be quite accessible, especially when additional considerations and customizations are made by the host and presenter.
This gives me a prime opportunity to make a shameless plug for WebAIM's new Zoom Accessibility Workshop coming up on April 19 - https://webaim.org/training/zoom/
Jared Smith
WebAIM

From: Morin, Gary (NIH/NCI) [E]
Date: Fri, Feb 11 2022 12:06PM
Subject: Re: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software
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The US Federal government seems to be focused primarily on using the following three - both in alphabetical order and order of preference (your milage may vary):

* Microsoft Teams
* WebEx
* Zoom

Much of our attention has been paid to the inclusion of human generated/professional captioning/CART - all three of which now support - so that we're not foisting or forcing auto-generated captioning on Deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, not that auto-generated captioning isn't still being used by far too many agencies.

Some federal agencies have looked at ScreenReader compatibility but none have addressed speech recognition/Dragon compatibility, to my knowledge.

Gary