[Athen] Listserv/group recommendations

[Deborah Armstrong]

I am a screen reader user and a huge fan of groups.io.

I run a mailing list for sighted folks there and another list for people with a variety of disabilities.

In both cases, the people who have trouble typically are less computer experienced. Every issue I’ve handled for my group members involves a lack of computer skill and the sighted people and the people using AT have exactly the same problems which are not related to accessibility.

Those problems include things like not knowing how to use the calendar, not understanding how digests work, being unable to change their subscription preferences, and not understanding how easy it is to search the archives and/or read messages online while receiving no mail from a high traffic list. Again, these issues are not related to accessibility at all though it is indeed harder for screen reader users to learn to use these features simply because they have to master the screen reader first.

--Debee



From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Spangler
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 1:25 PM
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Google Groups is one and Freelists is another, the latter being more for tech-based discussion groups I believe.


On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Lavey,Shannon <Shannon.Lavey at colostate.edu<mailto:Shannon.Lavey at colostate.edu>> wrote:
Hello!

Does anyone have recommendations for an accessible and user-friendly listserv or group that is similar to Yahoo Groups (ability to post discussions, announcements, files, etc.)?

Thank you for any insight!!

Shannon

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