<div dir="ltr"><div>My opinion:</div><div>At this time, Zoom is the best option for an accessible online meeting or webinar. Excellent keyboard functionality, tunable settings/preferences, and decent caption options are some of the reasons why. They also have a skilled accessibility team actively working on fixes and improvements. I love their settings for including or removing display of the meeting software while screen sharing. Their shortcut key options are very nice as well, esp being able to select global hotkeys for mute/unmute and camera on/off. The meeting controls visibility is a bit wonky at present, but I've been told it should be addressed soon.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Microsoft and Google can be ok for basic functionality, but still have shortcomings. They tend to issue fixes more slowly than Zoom. Keyboard support can be mysterious.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is no perfectly accessible product. In my experience, Zoom comes closest and seems to take accessibility more seriously than competitors.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As others will note, there are some that are truly bad for accessibility. WebEx and GoToMeeting come to mind. BlueJean was awful the last time I used it, but it's been a couple of years. I've not heard anything to lead me to change that opinion. Any companies in the AT/accessibility space demonstrate ignorance of accessibility if they choose these options for interacting with customers.</div><div><br></div><div>ATHEN uses Zoom for meetings and webinars. That is a pretty solid unofficial endorsement. Again, in my opinion.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-*- Dan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:37 PM <<a href="mailto:chagnon@pubcom.com">chagnon@pubcom.com</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"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">Zoom<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">Zoom Professional<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">WebEx<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">Go To Meeting (Log me In)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">ZoHo Meeting<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">BlueJeans<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_1782424608121709478MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt">Other?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">—Bevi<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">— — —<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt">Bevi Chagnon <b><span style="color:rgb(174,170,170)">| </span></b><span style="color:rgb(89,89,89)">Designer, Accessibility Technician</span><b><span style="color:rgb(174,170,170)"> |</span></b> <a href="mailto:Chagnon@PubCom.com" target="_blank">Chagnon@PubCom.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">— — —<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">PubCom: <span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)">Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing</span><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt">consulting </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">•</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> training </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">•</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> development </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">•</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> design </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">•</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> sec. 508 services<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Upcoming classes</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> at <a href="http://www.pubcom.com/classes" target="_blank">www.PubCom.com/<b>classes</b></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(208,206,206)">— — —<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e694edcdfadd/class-discount-3266574" target="_blank">Latest blog-newsletter</a> – <b><a href="https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2020_07-20/alt-text_part-1.shtml" target="_blank">Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text</a></b> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-*- Dan Comden <a href="mailto:danc@washington.edu" target="_blank">danc@uw.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Access Technology Center <a href="http://www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/" target="_blank">www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> University of Washington UW Information Technology</font></div><div><br></div></div>