[Athen] Zoom has some inaccessible features

[Khaled Musa]

Zoom accessibility team is working on a fix for the link which is coming up
in one of the upcoming releases.

Screen reader users should be able to click the link from the chat.





Best,

Khaled Musa

University of Minnesota





*From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On
Behalf Of *Deborah Armstrong
*Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2020 11:49 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [Athen] Zoom has some inaccessible features



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.



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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> *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>
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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