[BlindRUG] Accessible conference environments

[Tim in 't Veld]

Dear Liz,


I think the consensus is that Zoom is the most accessible option. There 
are good reasons for wishing to stay away from the proprietary Facebook 
censorship and privacy violation potentate from Trumpland but I don't 
think any alternative comes close to Zoom’s accessibility. If I am wrong 
I hope someone chimes in.

Teams and Skype work but have a lot of disadvantages. Whereby works 
quite well on iPhone but on the web version there is no way to know if 
the microphone is muted. I think a blind user will also manage to 
participate in meetings using the open source Jitsi meet software but 
have only limited experience with this platform. Again none of those 
options are as accessible as zoom.

Hope this helps,

Tim

The best option to go with for accessibility is Zoom. I know it is not 
open source and there are good reasons to aviod the sonsosship potentate
Op 23-10-2020 om 18:27 schreef Liz Hare via BlindRUG:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on accessibility with the organizers of UseR! 2021.
>
> We're trying to find an accessible, hopefully open-source, communication platform for the event. It would be a place to talk both within conference  presentations and outside them more generally. Features it needs:
>
> - Screen reader accessibility
> - usability for low vision and people with other issues (visual processing difficulties, epilepsy, etc)
> - open source
> - the ability to follow multiple threads (some of the simpler options like Google Chat don't let you have complex sets of communication areas.
>
> We are looking at Mattermost, which I think will be pretty challenging, accessibility wise. But we would like others to look at that you might have had success with in organizing or attending conferences.
>
> Thanks,
> Liz
>
>
>
> Liz Hare, PhD
> Dog Genetics LLC
> doggene at earthlink.net
> http://www.doggenetics.com
>
>
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