[Athen] [EXT]Re: Accessible webinar/video conferencing software

[Robert Beach]

I agree that Go To Meetings is a big time flop in regards to accessibility.

I have some issues with Teams since has still seems to have unlabeled buttons and tends to get locked into portions of the screen.

Zoom is the best I have found for both JAWS and NVDA. I have not tried it with Voice Over.


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Go To Meeting (Log me In) is an absolute no, as I can't interact with this at all with my screen reader.  My most recent experience with this was when attempting to join a Texthelp webinar; for some reason, they use Go To Meeting (I really can't imagine why anyone does when there are way better options out there), but Texthelp assures me that they will be moving from this to another platform sometime this year.  I personally don't understand the delay, but there it is.  Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, the other two popular ones that come to mind, are fine.

Robert


On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:39 PM <chagnon at pubcom.com<mailto:chagnon at pubcom.com>> wrote:
I know this has been asked before, and I've looked through the list archives, but the most recent thread I found was in 2016, and things have changed so much since then.
We're reviewing our own platform and software for online live video conferences. Any thoughts about accessibility in any of the major brand-named options, such as:

*       Zoom

*       Zoom Professional

*       WebEx

*       Go To Meeting (Log me In)

*       ZoHo Meeting

*       BlueJeans

*       Other?
Thanks,
-Bevi
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