NTID and Deaf Studies Librarian- Joan Naturale, Deaf and sign-fluent, can help you find materials for your assignments (article databases, books, videos). In addition, we have a librarian from each college (with their contact info) you can confer with for your assignments. Notice the green tab (chat, email, make an appointment) in the upper right hand corner when we are available. After hours, the orange tab gives you ways to contact us.
Do you need answers to your library questions? There are many ways to contact us.
NTID v/videophone: 585-286-4635 (messages may be left which I will get as an interpreted video message by hearing non-signing persons and signed messages by signing persons calling me directly on the videophone).
This page on self-captioning videos can help you get started. The Course Resources for Faculty link has information about captioning YouTube and Camtasia.
Information on Automatically Transcribe in Zoom Cloud Recordings is available. Getting Started with Closed Captioning in Zoom has useful information.
Google documents and Google slides have the speech to text features. The paid version of G Hangouts has auto-captions capability. The PowerPoint Presenter is an add-on that auto-captions.
Skype.com--You can choose Skype.com for audio and video calling or host a video conference for up to 50 people. One distinguishing option other platforms don't have is that you can enable the captions and subtitles feature. Also, during a call, you can share documents, photos, or videos up to 300 MB by dragging and dropping them right into the conversation window.
Microsoft Teams also has auto-captions capabilities. You can also use the free version.
Disability Services FAQ on Accessibility
AccessText Network-Find and request accessible PDF textbooks from many publishers.
Use of RIT resources is reserved for current RIT students, faculty
and staff for academic and teaching purposes only.
Please contact your librarian with any questions.
