Hmmmmmm, I never encountered Flash on our school's site, but perhaps I didn't look hard enough. :)
Mike On 7,Sep,2010, at 9:36 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.
