I was reading about WebCT accessibility since our staff has been promoting
it.  From what I gather, the chat feature which uses Java heavily is not
accessible and the WebCT people are aware of that.  Maybe in later
versions, it will be improved.

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Jon Nakasone
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ITS, University of Hawaii
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ann Parsons wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I can't make any technical suggestions, but WebCT is not truly
> accessible.  One reason for this is that when in chat mode, it
> continually scrolls and the speech synthe repeats the entire screen.
> The message boards are OK, but it's really not friendly at all.  I
> don't know how to make it friendly, I'm sorry, but I did want you to
> know that I heard you and I'm eager to see the answer to your
> question.
>
> Ann P.
>
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