ASL/CART Services

It is important that all events are accessible to individuals with disabilities. To learn more about best practices, please see our page on creating accessible events.

There are a lot of free applications that provide automated captioning. These tools have come a long way, and currently provide a 75%-85% accuracy rate. You should only use…

All students approved for ASL, CART, FM Systems or Closed Captioning should follow the steps below to ensure they have their accommodations in place for all of their courses, meetings, and events:

Step 1: Looking to register for accommodation? Learn more:

Registration Page

Step 2: Approved for Accommodations/in need of support? Schedule a meeting with the…

Rutgers utilizes several live conferencing tools. In order to provide you with up to date information, regarding every class session, we would like to ask that you follow the steps below. This will ensure that we are able to give you access to the course so that you log in to the conferencing tool, much like any other student.

• Please go to the Guest Request System
• On the left hand side, please…

Students approved through the Office of Disabilities Services (ODS) will provide you a Letter of Accommodation indicating they require American Sign Language (ASL) or captioning for their lectures. Typically, you will receive an email from the ODS prior to this, asking for information to enable them to make appropriate arrangements for your course.

While there are a number of automated tools, in these cases, the ASL interpreter and all captioning is outsourced by ODS to a live person. This ensures accuracy of the captions.  All…

To begin you will need to have a video file (i.e .mp4) and a caption file (i.e .vtt, .srt). There are several programs you can do this with, below are the 2 that we would recommend

1. Log in to …

In many cases, depending on how long your class is or the nature of the content matter, the student may be assigned multiple American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters. These individuals utilize signs, facial expressions, and body postures to communicate to the student what is happening during your class. The student will sometimes also use this to communicate to you, through the ASL interpreter.

It is important to note, you should always talk directly to the student, and not their…

There are 3 main types of Live Captions:

Suitable for open access, where their isn't an individual with a disability. Automated captions average only about 70-80% accuracy. To enable:

• Open your zoom session
• Click Live Transcript on the bottom of zoom
• Click Enable Automatic Transcription

ASL Interpretation is the most prominent type of interpreting used today. ASL Interpreters provide cultural and linguistic expertise in their…