<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kate, <br></div><div><br></div><div>We provided Whova with a detailed summary of the most pressing accessibility issues in their web app (e.g., no headings). I met with a rep to explore each of these issues in depth and he forwarded them on to the engineering team, but they were unwilling to commit to a timeframe for fixing any of their problems. As you mentioned, we created a userscript to fix the problem ourselves: <br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/terrill/whova-a11y-fix">https://github.com/terrill/whova-a11y-fix</a></div><div><br></div><div>Without the userscript, Whova is completely inaccessible (again, they don't even use headings, and some of their key interactive elements can't be accessed at all without a mouse, among other issues). The mobile app is a bit more accessible than the web app, but it too has problems. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The userscript was created based on the Whova AHG experience. There's no guarantee it will work with another Whova conference that's setup differently and/or uses different features. If you end up using Whova though, feel free to try it (and assign someone with JavaScript skills the task of improving it). <br></div><div><br></div><div>If your conference organizers are still considering alternatives, these might be worth a look: <br></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://hopin.com/">Hopin</a> - this was used by HighEdWeb. I did very limited accessibility
testing of this tool, and was impressed with what I saw. It had ARIA
landmarks, good heading structure, labels on form fields, and ARIA in
various places that made it clear they were paying attention. I talked
with a colleague though who uses a screen reader and had nothing good to
say about Hopin based on their experience at another recent
conference. It's possible that accessibility is a new focus for Hopin,
and the accessibility features I observed had been added in between our
two conferences. I definitely would consider them, and engage them in a
conversation about accessibility. <br></li><li><a href="https://www.crowdcompass.com/">Crowd Compass</a> (from CVENT) - I have no firsthand experience with this but
I've heard some good things about it from colleagues, and (I think) the NFB used
them for their summer conference. <br></li><li><a href="https://clowdr.org/">Clowdr</a> - I have no firsthand experience with this but I heard from a credible colleague that it has "numerous minor
accessibility issues,
but no showstoppers." It was created by academics and they reportedly are motivated to ensure full accessibility. </li></ul></div><div></div><div>Regards, <br></div><div>Terrill <br></div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--- <br>Terrill Thompson<br>Manager, IT Accessibility Team <br>UW-IT Accessible Technology Services<br>University of Washington<br><a href="mailto:tft@uw.edu" target="_blank">tft@uw.edu</a></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:14 AM Kate Deibel <<a href="mailto:kndeibel@syr.edu">kndeibel@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I’m assisting a conference plan its virtual hosting for this year’s conference. I’ve managed to push them away from Remo and now they are looking at Whova. I know that AHG
is using Whova this year. Although I’m not in attendance, I’m aware that some accessibility fixes had to be done via custom JavaScript.
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Any opinions on the Whova accessibility experience will be appreciated. In particular, if you’re willing to chat with our conference organizers, that would be great!
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