1. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Matt May | Accessibility Evangelist Accessible Web Conferencing with Adobe Connect

2. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What is Adobe Connect?  Adobe® Connect™ is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning, and webinars.  Current version is 9

3. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What Features Does Adobe Connect Provide?  Connect offers features in “pods”  Sharing  Document sharing  Screen sharing  VoIP  Chat  Notes  Whiteboard  Polls  Session recording

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5. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Adobe Connect Keyboard Access  A few simple shortcuts will get keyboard users going TaskWindowsMac OS Toggle between notification window and meeting room F8 Display application menu for keyboard navigation Ctrl+SpaceCommand+F2 Move focus to next / previous pod Ctrl+F6 / Ctrl+Shift+F6Command+F6 / Command+Shift+F6 Display pod menu for keyboard navigation Ctrl+F8Command+F8

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9. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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 http://adobe.ly/UsT1Ml

10. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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)http://www.captioncolorado.com  WGBH Media Access Group (http://access.wgbh.org)http://access.wgbh.org  Stream Text (http://streamtext.net)http://streamtext.net  Caption First (http://www.captionfirst.com)http://www.captionfirst.com

11. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 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. © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 16 Resources  Adobe Accessibility Resource Center adobe.com/accessibility adobe.com/accessibility  Adobe Accessibility Blog blogs.adobe.com/accessibility blogs.adobe.com/accessibility

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