[nabs-l] crisis textline volunteering and thoughts on accessible webinar sites?

[Sam Nelson]

Hi. 
 Huh never thought of that  at all. Could it be done totally privately
though? 
 I suppose google hang outs could be an option too? Though one time I was on
it and it wasn't too great with NVDA. 
 But that could have changed. 
 Thanks. 
 Sam 

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accessible webinar sites?

Best site to stream any kind of thing like that is YouTube. YouTube has
livestreaming now so nobody really ever needs to do anything else.
On Oct 23, 2015 13:28, "Sam Nelson via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>  I'm currently involved in a volunteer training for crisis textline, a 
> nonprofit organization that provides a text services most often used 
> by teenagers where they can text in and receive emotional support and 
> crisis intervention similar to a hotline  minus the calling on the phone.
>
>  Anyway the staff and trainers are excellent and committed to 
> providing accessible service.
>
>  Unfortunately this was their first experience using go to webinar, 
> branched off go to meeting. So they didn'[t know the accessibility 
> nightmare it was.
> We found that out quickly! They have no desire to help the blind at 
> all I and others called and found that out.
>
>  Luckely the crisis line live platform for actually service to users 
> is totally accessible as is their website. This is just for the 
> training piece of it, as all training is done remotely and they train 
> like at least eighty people at a time.
>
>  Louckely as well they  can use Uber conference, which works very well 
> but can't hold the number of participants that go to webinar can and 
> doesn't have the  ability for trainers to share their webcam. However  
> in my case the work around we came up with was for the trainers to be 
> on both uber conference and go to webinar at the same time so I could 
> verbally talk  to them, the others wouldn't hear me. Everything else 
> could be done on the chat part of the crisis text line site which 
> works fine.
>
>  We fnally figured this out after a nhtmare week! But now I'm 
> extremely happy and totally impressed with their commitment and
resourcefulness.
>
>  They're looking forward to fixing this issue totally and getting more 
> blind/ visually impaired people on board which is  partly why I'm 
> writing this to let you guys know  about the great volunteer opportunity
from home.
>
>  The site is:
>
>  www.crisistextline.org
>
>   Lastly and where I need your input, the trainer and I are searching 
> for more accessible services both for the blind and anyone using them. 
> I heard about talking communities and sent her info on that. Does 
> anyone have thoughts on other services or is talking communities the 
> best one out there?
>
>
>  Thanks so much!
>
>  Sam
>
>
>
> Check out my blog
>
>  Matterstosam.wordpress.com
>
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> and anynomous survey!
>
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