The site was called Visual Voicethread, so imagine Reddit only instead of typing your words, you use a flash based application to record yourself with your webcam. Wonderful idea, really poor execution. It's something I as a sighted person wish I had in some of my online courses at another school where the discussion boards were your standard format, but really the video portion of the site was completely inaccessible with JAWS, Apple Voiceover, NVDA... flash based, so nothing was machine readable. They had a universal site that was text based and you could play videos, but not record. You could post text, but not videos. You couldn't even subscribe to the thread. So I had to log in for her, subscribe to her thread, log out, and let her login with the universal access site and view videos and post text comments, and that was after having a nice long conversation with Mr. I-Have-A-PHD that I have a long slew of tech certifications and a lawyer. So it didn't have much with the other students, they just talked, awkwardly into their webcams. The site was a big mess.

She occasionally has some issues finding textbooks, but if she gets her orders in on time the Disability Services folks will pick up her books, destroy them (IMHO) and send her OCR renderings of everything. Every thing else is related to the people, faculty and advisers, in the program how hey are either stupid, illiterate, or really have an issue with a blind teacher of the visually impaired so don't give a hoot. But I think that has more to do with the lack of face-to-face communication, as communicating over text is a real nightmare. I don't think humans were ever really supposed to communicate in writing more than token letters, accounting, and various educational texts. Most person-to-person text communication sucks.