Zoom Accessibility Tips
University of Arizona DRC Techniques
There are a lot of techniques for making your Zoom meetings accessible.
The University of Arizona Disability Resource Center (DRC) has created a great resource of a variety suggestions for making your meetings as accessible as possible.
Zoom Accessbility Techniques for Meetings and Classes (opens in a new tab)
For questions or more information, please contact the IT Accessibility team at accessibility@arizona.edu.
Live Meeting Captions
You can use captions during your live Zoom meetings.
Who this helps
- Anyone with mild to profound hearing loss
- People with with decreased hearing due to aging
- People with damaged hearing from exposure to loud noises
- People with infections or injuries who may experience temporary or permanent hearing loss
- People taking medications that can affect hearing
Who this also helps
- Foreign language learners who may have difficulty understanding spoken words
- People working in noisy or sound-sensitive environments
- People with learning disabilities, attention deficits, and autism who use captions to help maintain concentration
- Everyone who may have trouble comprehending mumbled words, fast speech, or dialogue when there is background noise
Zoom has a variety of options for creating virtual closed captioning in your Zoom meetings and webinars that provide subtitles for video conferencing. These options can be enabled and used by participants to easily follow the conversations or to meet accessibility requirements.
In a meeting, the host or another participant assigned by the host can provide manual captioning, an integrated third-party closed captioning service can provide the captioning, or Zoom's automated captions feature can provide automatic captioning.
To learn how to enable and manage these captioning options view Zoom's support pages below.
Manage manual captions (opens in a new tab)
Using a third-party closed captioning service (opens in a new tab)