[Athen] unable to enter WebEx meeting room using screen reader

[Thompson, Rachel]

Which webinar systems do you consider most accessible out of the box? Our campus uses Blackboard Collaborate and have a few groups who still use GoToMeeting. Bb Collaborate has worked for many of our students.

Rachel

Dr. Rachel S. Thompson
Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility
Center for Instructional Technology
University of Alabama
http://accessibility.ua.edu




From: George Kerscher <kerscher at montana.com<mailto:kerscher at montana.com>>
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Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 9:59 AM
To: "athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>" <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Athen] unable to enter WebEx meeting room using screen reader

Hello Higher Ed folks,

It would be wonderful if the Higher Ed community in the USA (or the world) would come out vocally against webinar systems that are not accessible. There are many systems out there, and I do not know of a cross platform system that works.

If there is one, I sure would like to know about it; and then we all should use it.

Best
George





George Kerscher Ph.D.

-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.

Secretary General, DAISY Consortium

http://www.daisy.org

Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally Together It’s Possible

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President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dimac, Marcie
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] unable to enter WebEx meeting room using screen reader

Can you have the presenter send over the slides so the student has access to those? Will Webex launch (so student can listen) but is just not allowing student to interface with program (i.e. Ask a question in chat or answer a poll question?)

I did some quick research, seems that no script files have been written for webex to make it compatible with JAWS (that I could find)

Just my two cents!

Marcie Dimač, M.A. Ed.

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From: <Brusnighan>, "Dean A." <dabrus at purdue.edu<mailto:dabrus at purdue.edu>>
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Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM
To: ATHEN mailing list <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: [Athen] unable to enter WebEx meeting room using screen reader

Hi,

I’m looking for a fix or a workaround.

A student using JAWS is unable to enter a WebEx meeting room. He is using JAWS 15 and tried both IE and Chrome. I replicated the problem using both JAWS 15 and NVDA with Firefox.

Our WebEx admin is submitting a ticket. I feel I have a better chance of getting a resolution from all of you. Thanks for any insights you can share!

Dean

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Assistive Technology Specialist
Purdue University, Young Hall
155 S. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108
Phone: 765-494-9082
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