by Halle Marchese on April 5, 2021
The Disability Resource Center at the University of Florida is recruiting full-time American Sign Language interpreters. The new hires will interpret classes for students who are deaf and hard of hearing in addition to supporting campus events.
UF will be the only university in Florida with several full-time interpreters, setting a new precedent for campus accessibility standards, said Jenna Gonzalez, interim director of the Disability Resource Center.
“I want folks to know that if you really, truly want to be a Gator, you can come and get your access needs met,” Gonzalez said. “This is another way to show that we are living our values. And I think it will help students know to apply to UF because this is what we represent on this campus – pioneering access.”
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The Problem With Zoom Adding Free Captions After Getting Called Out
Julia Métraux
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As a journalist and content writer, I often have to go on Zoom calls every day with clients and interview sources who request to use this platform. I am also hard-of-hearing, which makes following what people say on calls tiring, due to listening fatigue.
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Automated captions help me do my job. It is difficult to be prepared to answer a client’s question or provide a follow-up when I am concentrating on understanding everything that a person says. While automated captions do not remove all barriers I face as a hard-of-hearing journalist, it does make my job a bit easier. This is why I tweeted on Monday that it is ableist that Zoom does not have free captions, unlike the platforms Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Skype.