RE: accessibility of blackboard and JAWS
- From: "Robert McCoy" <rmccoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:08:44 -0300
My university switched from WebCT to blackboard as well. Actually,
BlackBoard purchased WebCT and changed the name.
I have used BlackBoard since the switch and found it as accessible as WebCT.
Robert McCoy
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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of brandon b
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 7:50 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: accessibility of blackboard and JAWS
thanks for this. I'm doing some online courses and my school used to use web
CT, and I heard somewhere that this company bought them out, so this is good
to know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: accessibility of blackboard and JAWS
>I used to use Blackboard when I was in college, and I found it surprisingly
>accessible. And that was back around oh.. JFW 5.0 or somewhere in that
>general area. I don't know what's all changed with it, though; it's been a
>few years. If she downloads the demo version of the latest 8.0, does it
>work better for her? Try it out and see. Or if she doesn't want to waste
>the space, I assume you're running the same version... she could always see
>if it works any better on your setup.
> J
> ames,
> List Admin
> At 10:35 AM 8/24/2007, you wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:bcsarah.fan@xxxxxxxxx>Patricia
>>To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:14 PM
>>Subject: question on behalf of a friend
>>
>>Hi:
>>
>>has anyone used blackboard with JAWS? a friend is using JAWS 7.1 with
>>Windows XP home and is finding it quite inaccessible. blackboard used to
>>be Webct, but blackboard now owns webct. she is also using internet
>>explorer 6 and/or Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12.
>>
>>any help would be great, as she is using this for school.
>>
>>Patricia
>>
>>e-mail: <mailto:bcsarah.fan@xxxxxxxxx>bcsarah.fan@xxxxxxxxx
>>msn: <mailto:bc_sarah_fan@xxxxxxxxxxx>bc_sarah_fan@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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