Hosting Accessible Zoom Meetings

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Zoom—the most popular virtual meeting platform—includes many powerful features that support accessible meetings. Many of these features have pitfalls that hosts need to understand to make a meeting as accessible as it can be. For example: The new Sign Language Interpreter options give deaf participants the ability to interact with an interpreter in a resizable external window, but the process to show and hide interpreters is not intuitive. Captioners and interpreters must be made panelists if they want to join webinars early. The process to provide automatic captions has recently been updated to make it easier to implement in some ways but harder in others. These are just a few examples of potential pitfalls.

During this session, we will review many of these common pitfalls and, in most cases, ways around them. This includes auto and manual captions, sign language interpretation, the participant video gallery, screen sharing, chat, breakout rooms, and recording. We will also review principles of best practice for presenting and sharing your screen in more accessible ways and will practice this process together.