[Athen] Go to Meeting Accessibility

[Brown-Roberts, Charles G]

Good Day Todd,

I recently attended an Accessible Technology Coalition (ATC) webinar that was hosted in Elluminate rather than GoToMeeting primarily because of GoTo's accessibility issues.  You may want to contact Karen Sheehan of ATC at ksheehan at cforat.org and inquire about their experience with GoTo and why they ultimately chose to use Elluminate and/or if they know how to overcome any GoTo accessibility issues since they had been using it to host meetings up until this most recent webinar.

AT Coalition email address is info at atcoalition.org

Cheers,
Charles


Charles Brown-Roberts
Web Accessibility Specialist
Accessible Technology Initiative
Information Resources and Technology, Web Services
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J St., Sacramento, CA 95819-6065
(916) 278-1747
charles.brownroberts at csus.edu
http://www.csus.edu/accessibility
Twitter:@CaliforniaVol



-----Original Message-----
From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:17 AM
To: devrtodd at isu.edu; 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: RE: [Athen] Go to Meeting Accessibility

I had to "attend" a Go To Meeting" yesterday and after launching the UI had no access to anything. The meeting was supported by a phone call so ended up having to use Task Manager to exit Go To Meeting...couldn't use Alt + F4 and couldn't find a menu or way of exiting other than Task Manager...and just listened on the phone. I use JAWS and am using JAWS 12.  I tried using keyboard commands, the JAWS cursor...everything I could think of to see where my focus was and what I could do but only got silence from JAWS other than it telling me what keys I'd pressed. I keep JAWS on beginner mode as I do training so it wasn't that my settings had eliminated any elements from being rendered to me.

Windows LiveMeeting is the same...you launch it and can't do anything with it although the sound is built into that for the couple of LiveMeeting session I had to attend...but again could only Alt Tab to it and nothing else. Windows Lync is the same, launch it and no access.

I haven't used any bridging software/tools to use these things.

Cheers, Karen



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[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Todd DeVries
Sent: June-09-11 4:31 PM
To: athen-list at mailman1.u.washington.edu
Subject: [Athen] Go to Meeting Accessibility

Good afternoon everyone,

Can anyone speak to the accessibility of the Go to Meeting platform?
Specifically: 1. what can be done to caption audio content? 2. How accessible is the platform to screen readers? 3.
What, if any, experiences have you had using Accessible Event in conjunction with the service?

Thanks in advance,

Todd
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