[WG: Accessibility] Seeking Accessible Collaborative Tools

[Richwine, Brian L]

At the last Sakai Accessibility Working Group teleconference, a desire was raised to find a collaborative tool that everyone could use during the phone conference to share information, links, etc.

Mary Stores and I tried out EtherPad (as found at etherpad.ctools.org). It wasn't designed with accessibility in mind and would definitely be difficult for a screen reader user to use.  Accessibility problems found include many unlabeled input elements and no easy way to navigate the page structure (move from the document editor, the chat window, the options/settings, etc.)

Unfortunately, Google docs isn't very accessible either.

Mary suggests that Skype's chat feature is reasonable accessible. Since Skype is fairly common, perhaps it is the best option for now.

Does anyone have suggestions for other online collaboration tools that we could look at?

Thanks,
  Brian

Brian Richwine
Adaptive Technology Support Specialist
Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University - Bloomington/Indianapolis
http://iuadapts.indiana.edu
(812) 856-4112

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