Fully-Accessible Online Conferencing and Distance-Learning System

IDEAL Conference^® integrates data and voice within standard web browsers. This enables people to conduct meetings over the Internet from just about any computer with a network connection and a web browser.

Empower your students (e-learning) and workforce (virtual) with online conferencing and collaboration services.

Deliver dynamic and interactive presentations to your partners, vendors, and customers. It's easy to conduct an accessible online meeting—and it’s just as easy to invite participants and demonstrate products.

Accessibility Features:

• See our "Conferencing Support and Diagnostic Resources"

• Fully accessible to people with a very wide range of abilities

• 508 compliant; please see our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

• ADA compliant

• Enables the accessible recording and archiving of meetings and presentations

• High-quality audio

• Document conversion and upload center, which makes it easy for anyone to convert PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint into accessible formats, automatically uploading to a web server

• Global microphone that enables users to operate from within other applications and still use our Voice-over-IP accessible conferencing services

• Compatible with inductive loop-equipped headsets

• Interoperable, compatible with remote conference captioning services

• Save text chats as separate files

• Synchronized web browsing

• Tested and compatible with popular, commercially available screen readers, screen magnifiers, and speech recognition programs including:

  • JAWS by Freedom Scientific http://www.freedomscientific.com/

  • Window-Eyes by GW Micro http://www.gwmicro.com/

  • ZoomText by Ai Squared http://www.aisquared.com/

  • BigShot by Ai Squared http://www.aisquared.com/

  • MAgic by Freedom Scientific http://www.freedomscientific.com/

  • Dragon Naturally Speaking by NUANCE http://www.nuance.com/

• All functions are accessible using the keyboard

• Ability to change keyboard shortcuts in support of avoiding interoperability and incompatibility with assistive technology

• Displays the names of individuals in the room

• Self-voicing (user option) of:

  • Public and private text chats

  • User status (active/away)

  • Active speaker's name

  • Names of people entering and leaving rooms

• Visual indicator of "active speaker," "away," and "text-messaging" status of all participants

• Accessible polling system

• Document conversion and upload center that automatically converts PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents into formats that are accessible by assistive technology users

• Enables the user to display/hide conferencing desktop screen elements in support of simplicity

• Public and private accessible text chats

• Changeable foreground colors, background colors, point size and fonts of text messages

• Changeable talk sounds for push and release of the talk key

Uses:

• Collaborating

• Conferencing

• Conducting Webinars

• Job interviewing

• Job shadowing

• Meeting

• Mentoring

• Presenting

• Teaching

• Training

• Tutoring