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To the CoScreen folks watching this thread: Have you thought about possible ways of handling the special case where one of the collaborators has a disability and needs to use a screen reader, magnifier, voice input, or some other accessibility tool? I have expertise in this area, so maybe we could discuss it more privately.

Of course, this is also a challenge when everyone is together in the same place.




CTO of CoScreen here.

One of my first forays into video conferencing was programming nTouch Mobile for Sorenson Communications: https://www.sorensonvrs.com/ntouchmobile

Which was a video conferencing application for performing VRS for deaf and hard of hearing users, originally on the first Android G1, and the first iPhone.

I'm extremely interested in accessibility, and I can say seeing people get together, laugh, chat, and play, via nTouch was one of the most fulfilling moments of my life.

People make products greater than the sum of their parts, and if CoScreen could be helpful in one of these avenues, we would love to explore it.


I heard the test techs there were some real assholes, especially the physicist ones :)

(Hi Jason)


<.< Oh no, my past is catching up with me...


Thanks for bringing this up. We have discussed this a few times but don't have much expertise in the area so I'd love to chat as we actually believe CoScreen could make a difference here.

Please drop me a mail at [email protected]!




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