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Thanks to William Tibben who posted this in an email to the capacity working group mailing list.

"The Americans with Disabilities website contains a really informative webinar and other information.

 http://www.accessibilityonline.org/Archives/index.php?app=4&type=transcript&id=2012-09-06

After reading through this information the following questions are useful when assessing the accessibility of collaborative platforms.

1.Is the white board application displaying text based lectures slides (e.g. power point) accessible to screen readers?

2. Can text window for chat, asking questions and the like be ballooned for people with low vision?

3. Do point and click operations using a mouse have a keyboard equivalent for people for low motor skills?

 Ideally, all spoken text should be captioned"