Cara, is this zoom.us thing, a web, browser based thing? Or is it an app? > On Apr 20, 2017, at 9:00 PM, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > > Karen and All, > > I have also been using Zoom with a corporate account pretty much every day > for about a year now but unlike everyone else posting here so far, I have > encountered a number of really bothersome accessibility issues. > > So I am wondering if you or someone else in this thread may be able to tell > me what the heck I am doing wrong! lol! > > Firstly, in scheduling a meeting on the Mac, choosing a date causes VO to get > stuck in the date area. > > Once I figured out that I needed to interact with the date again, I was not > able to hear which field I was editing with up and down arrows. More > accurately, I can hear the items which are changing but once I have selected > an item and use the left or right arrows to move to the next item, no time or > date elements are announced until I start using up or down arrows to edit > them. > > So I basically need to just guess at which time or date element I am editing > at any given moment. > > this is further complicated by the fact that once I am done editing the time > and date, Voiceover still seems to be stuck in the date area and it is only > by luck that I am able to get out of this area and not change anything I have > just set. > > Once I get through that horror show, then I need to be careful when moving > through the rest of the scheduling window so as not to accidentally get > caught in the date area again. > > So finally, once I have scheduled the meeting successfully, I then go to my > meetings tab and am greeted with a grid of unknown cells which I then need to > interact with to see which contains my scheduled meeting. Once I do that, > there is no obvious way to add participants to it. > > If I click on the Contacts tab to access my company contacts I find a really > funky table that seems to cause Voiceover to keep jumping in the list of > people as if the list is constantly refreshing. > > Once I am able to select a person, I am placed into what looks like a chat > window and again, Voiceover gets stuck in this window. I.E. I can press > Escape to get out of the chat window but as soon as Voiceover moves out of > the window its focus is immediately brought back into the chat window again. > > This insanity also sometimes happens when I am just moving through the table > trying to locate a person. I.E. I will be looking for someone and suddenly I > will just end up in a chat window with a random person I am passing by in the > constantly refreshing list of contacts. > > I am assuming this list keeps refreshing to keep up with coworkers statuses > and such but for God’s sake, there needs to be a way to turn this off. lol! > > Needless to say this is all just hellishly annoying to say the least when I > just want / need to get work done. So I am really curious at what others’ are > doing to make this app usable. > > I have not even gotten into the squirreliness on the iOS client or the window > juggling I seem to need to do when hosting a live meeting or presentation on > the Mac where I need to do screen sharing. It’s all just a bit much for me. > :) -And certainly is not ready to be called accessible at a corporate level > in my opinion. > > So for me personally, calling this accessible is really kind of a stretch. > It’s sort of usable but not what I would consider accessible or at all > enjoyable. :) > > Just my opinion of course and as I say, I am more than excited to hear > others’ feedback if it can help me tame this beastie! lol! > > thanks bunches All and do have a lovely evening / morning / day, wherever you > may be on this little blue-green ball of ours. > > Cheers! > > Cara > --- > iOS design and development - LookTel.com > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > > On Apr 20, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > I will add that zoom allows you to give participant's a call in number > instead, a fine option for those ho prefer attending without video at all. > Granted as is often the case when the audio is video based, the quality is > sort of nose crinkle worthy, but at least the door for phone alone is there. > Karen > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Kliphton Miller wrote: > >> I HAVE BEEN USING ZOOM FOR ABOUT A YEAR, IT IS MOSTLY ACCESSIBLE, JUST THAT >> SOME OPTIONS THAT ARE available to the sited user, vo doesn’t read during a >> conference, but it’s not a deal breaker. >>> On Apr 20, 2017, at 6:06 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I saw on Twitter yesterday that a new web conferencing service was >>> discovered recently: www.zoom.us <http://www.zoom.us/>. The big news here >>> is that they have an accessibility website (https://zoom.us/accessibility >>> <https://zoom.us/accessibility>), an email address (acc...@zoom.us >>> <mailto:acc...@zoom.us>), and a commitment to keeping their product >>> accessible. They claim compatibility with VoiceOver, Talkback, and NVDA, >>> covering all the major platforms. >>> >>> I haven't tried the service at all, and am going off only what I read on >>> their website and in the article that pointed me to them in the first >>> place. However, things look good. If you're in need of this kine of service >>> and you try Zoom, I'd love to hear what you thought of the experience. >>> >>> I haven't been following the Citrix thread, so I apologize if this was >>> already brought up over there. >>> >>> -- >>> Alex Hall >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>> Visionaries list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >>> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >>> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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