[Athen] Zoom has some inaccessible features

Brian Richwine blrichwine at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 06:50:37 PDT 2020


Another important limitation with Zoom to keep in mind: Links posted in the
chat are not accessible. The only work around would be to email out links
separately or perhaps save the chat transcript and then email out the chat
transcript.

-Brian

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:21 PM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
wrote:


> Though zoom is popular with BVI folks like my previous message said, the

> whiteboard and screen sharing are not accessible.

>

>

>

> The whiteboard can not be accessed with the keyboard or read with a screen

> reader. Shared screens are also not text-based.

>

>

>

> Instructors need to know that they’ll have to read what’s written on their

> digital boards and provide handouts a student can open in a separate window

> rather than just viewing the instructor’s shared screen.

>

>

>

> But sharing your screen as a screen reader user is both keyboard and voice

> accessible, plus the ability to record and control other aspects of zoom is

> accessible as well.

>

>

>

> --Debee

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> athen-list mailing list

> athen-list at mailman12.u.washington.edu

> http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list

>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20200323/8fbe927e/attachment.html>


More information about the athen-list mailing list