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Accessible Web Conferencing with Adobe Connect

Accessible Web Conferencing with Adobe Connect. Matt May | Accessibility Evangelist. What is Adobe Connect?. Adobe® Connect™ is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning, and webinars. Current version is 9. What Features Does Adobe Connect Provide?.

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Accessible Web Conferencing with Adobe Connect

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  1. Accessible Web Conferencing with Adobe Connect Matt May | Accessibility Evangelist

  2. What is Adobe Connect? Adobe® Connect™ is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning, and webinars. Current version is 9

  3. What Features Does Adobe Connect Provide? Connect offers features in “pods” Sharing Document sharing Screen sharing VoIP Chat Notes Whiteboard Polls Session recording

  4. Adobe Connect 9 http://my.adobeconnect.com/mattmay

  5. Adobe Connect Keyboard Access A few simple shortcuts will get keyboard users going

  6. Adobe Connect 9

  7. Adobe Connect 9

  8. Adobe Connect 9

  9. Adobe Connect Keyboard Access All pods are available via the keyboard The keyboard access model divided the interface into key regions – toolbar and pods Shortcuts are provided for several key features http://adobe.ly/UsT1Ml

  10. Adobe Connect Closed Captioning Adobe Connect offers support for real-time closed captioning. Vendors that support captioning in Connect include: Caption Colorado (http://www.captioncolorado.com) WGBH Media Access Group (http://access.wgbh.org) Stream Text (http://streamtext.net) Caption First (http://www.captionfirst.com)

  11. Adobe Connect Closed Captioning Captions from recorded sessions are also recorded. The Connect 9 caption pod can record a transcript of captions, offers exports in HTML and text. Captions can be turned off by any user

  12. Adobe Connect Closed Captioning You can announce an in-room captioner Captioner will enter an editor interface All other attendees will see captions in real time

  13. Adobe Connect Closed Captioning Users have control over display – multiple font sizes and five color and contrast display options Users also have playback controls to enable review of missed content

  14. Adobe Connect Assistive Technology Support There are two different interfaces to Connect – the browser based version and the Connect Add-in (standalone) version Some content, such as PowerPoint slide content and individual chat items require use of a screen reader ‘virtual cursor’, and screen readers do not have this support in the Add-in. Users can determine which interface they prefer http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/samplemeeting?launcher=false http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/samplemeeting?launcher=true

  15. Adobe Connect Assistive Technology Support Adobe Connect uses the Flash Player for the meeting user interface, so assistive technology support on Windows is provided via MSAA. Shared PowerPoint slide content is available within the Share pod (browser-based version). Assistive technology users can function fully within Connect 8+

  16. Resources • Adobe Accessibility Resource Centeradobe.com/accessibility • Adobe Accessibility Blogblogs.adobe.com/accessibility

  17. Q&A

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