I haven't encountered a flash issue and my school is using blackboard 9.1. When I said using blackboard was tricky I just meant it takes some getting used to. Learning to navigate between the different frames and lists and menus can be somewhat cumbersome. A lot of that is my lack of ability with VO too though. I have not encountered anything I could not access yet though.
Greg On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > As I said, it may depend on what they are using Flash for. If they are just > using it for audio/video and have implemented keyboard controls or links to > start/stop etc then the Flash would be fine. If they implement any controls > in the Flash widget itself then Mac accessibility will be compromised. These > days there really isn't a good reason to implement controls in Flash when > HTML can do the same thing with less compatibility issues. > > I got the requirements from here: > > http://www.icc.edu/innovation/blackboard/browsercheck.html > > CB > > On 9/7/10 3:36 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: >> My college still uses blackboard 7.1 and it doesn't use flash at all >> anywhere. It's very accessible on the Mac, though as someone pointed out the >> discussion forums are slightly tricky. >> >> If they have started requiring flash in newer versions, that will be very >> bad news. I absolutely hope that this is incorrect. Where did you hear that >> blackboard requires flash? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <cblo...@aol.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:30 AM >> Subject: Re: Blackboard, anyone? >> >> >>> Last I heard Flash was still a requirement for Blackboard and Adobe has not >>> enabled accessibility on the Mac platform. So I would assume it will not >>> work very well with voiceover, depending on which parts they use Flash to >>> implement. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 9/7/10 5:33 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: >>>> I can't say I've used blackboard with safari, but I have definitely used >>>> blackboard with both IE and firefox on a windows based platform. And can >>>> honestly say that very little of it is not accessible. >>>> However blackboard 9, you just reminded me, that I have been asked to >>>> check >>>> it out for accessibility for work, so Ii'll try it with safari also and see >>>> how I go, not that my safari skils are that good currently. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Busboom >>>> Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 3:10 a.m. >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> Subject: Blackboard, anyone? >>>> >>>> Hi listers, >>>> >>>> Blackboard is an e-learning platform that many universities use for online >>>> distribution of course material. Recently, the beta version of Blackboard >>>> 9.1 was introduced, and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience >>>> using it. >>>> >>>> Actually, I wouldn't mind getting feedback from people who have used >>>> earlier >>>> versions of this e-learning platform. In particular, I am wondering if >>>> anyone can give me tips on how to best use Blackboard with Safari. While it >>>> is not difficult to get to the part of the program where you can read your >>>> assignments and take tests, it is very difficult to participate in >>>> classroom >>>> discussions, e.g. following long threads. >>>> >>>> If anyone could point me to some good tutorial information on how to use >>>> Blackboard with Safari and Voice Over, I'd be more than grateful. If >>>> anyone >>>> would be willing to chat with me via Skype and help me go through the >>>> platform, I'd be even more grateful! >>>> >>>> Kindest regards to all, >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
