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UB Alumni Caree
Active Contributor
3 years ago
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Closed Captioning Availability

Our university is forcing us to move from GoToWebinar (which we have been using for our weekly webinar program since 2016) to Zoom for accessibility - specifically closed captioning. This is a non-ne...
  • GlennD's avatar
    GlennD
    3 years ago

    Hi pala04, welcome to the community.

     

    Yes, we are working on Closed Captioning. I believe it may be available for GoToMeeting first. Once we are closer to a public release I will update the community.

      

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KateG
GoTo Manager
3 years ago

MeganUSAC welcome to the GoTo Community. 

 

I moved your post to this similar conversation. Thanks for sharing your experience. We anticipate Captions coming to GoTo soon for GoTo Meeting. GoTo Webinar will follow, though I don't have a timeline. We will update the Community as soon as we have further information. Thanks. 

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aldersv99
Active Contributor
3 years ago

Unfortunately as an organisation we are getting a large backlash of attendees being very negative about our webinars due to no closed captions, we too want to stay with go to webinar but have had to look at alternatives as not providing them can't carry on.  I appreciate you are working on this but it's really too slow in coming when your competitors have had this for a long time. 😞