I’m helping students and people with disability to navigate their devices and learn how to do things on their computer.

Sometimes I do this remotely, and I’m looking for software that would allow them to share their screen to me. And me to annotate on their screen (visible to them) or at least show my cursor so I can point at things.

I know this used to be possible with slack. But I would like to find an open-source and affordable alternative.

Anybody have some experience with this?

  • SolarBoy@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Ok, thats good. But I suppose I can’t point at something with the cursor while he is using it right? One person I help is using eye-tracking software, so I guess he would have to turn it off every time I want to show something

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Haven’t used that feature to be able to say how that interaction works, or used it with a tobii or anything unfortunately.

      The only other thing I can think of to check out would be Jitsi, but I don’t think it does annotation. Iirc, they were adding in something for a laser pointer, but I don’t know where thats at in development or that it would be enough for you use.