[Athen] Zoom has some inaccessible features

[Deborah Armstrong]

I will have to try this with NVDA, but with the JAWS scripts the chat text is easy to read and select. It’s using the virtual cursor. I never had issues working with the chat. I’ve used it extensively in webinars, often more than my voice, because I take webinars at work where I don’t want to talk.

As for pasting the links, I just paste them directly in to the browser address bar or the run box. I get lots of emails and documents where a link isn’t clickable – sighted folk do too, and you have to copy and paste the link in to the browser.

The bigger concern I think is going to be online tutoring which is likely to rely on the inaccessible whiteboard and screen sharing.

And I’m expecting our BVI students to still want to work with tutors.

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Travis Roth
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 7:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Zoom has some inaccessible features

It is possible to highlight the chat message with arrow keys, move to the More actions button and choose copy message and paste the message in a text editor and copy the link from there.
It is a frustrating and tedious workaround but sometimes necessary when working with colleagues.


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Brian Richwine
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 8:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Zoom has some inaccessible features

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<mailto: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

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