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From: Karen McCall
Date: Feb 10, 2022 1:56PM

Zoom!

They now have on-board captioning, lots of keyboard commands and now JAWS supports hearing the screen reader in one ear and the zoom content in the other.

I've used Teams but find it not as intuitive as Zoom and I have so many Teams accounts/conversations/meetings with different logins that it gets confusing and sometimes I can't access one Teams account/session or can't find the one I want. Zoom keeps it simple!

WebEx and GoToMeeting haven't caught up with Zoom...or Teams and I wouldn't recommend them.

Cheers, Karen

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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible webinar/video conferencing software

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.

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:

* Zoom

* Zoom Professional

* WebEx

* Go To Meeting (Log me In)

* ZoHo Meeting

* BlueJeans

* Other?

Thanks,

-Bevi

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Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >

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