Zoom Accessibility

Zoom strives to ensure that people of all abilities can meet and collaborate with one another by taking into consideration the wide range of hearing, vision, mobility, and cognitive abilities. Zoom teams adhere to the WCAG 2.1 AA recommendations while designing and developing every feature to ensure that accessibility considerations are not just nice-to-haves, but requirements in the development process.

Captioning Options

Access the meeting controls toolbar

When you start or join a meeting, the meeting controls toolbar will appear at the bottom of the meeting window. While hosts and participants have similar controls in a meeting, hosts have additional capabilities to manage the meeting.

1. Select Host tools : Access in-meeting security options such as locking the meeting, enabling the waiting room, hiding profile pictures, setting what participants can do, or suspending all participant activities.
2. Select Advanced in the Host tools window.
3. Select Captions in the Advanced window.

Captioning Attributes

Access the meeting controls toolbar

When you start or join a meeting, the meeting controls toolbar will appear at the bottom of the meeting window. While hosts and participants have similar controls in a meeting, hosts have additional capabilities to manage the meeting.

1. Select More : Click More to view additional options that aren’t available on the meeting controls toolbar. You can drag and drop options from the More menu into your toolbar.
2. Select Settings in the More window.
3. Select Accessibility in the Settings window.

Video Options

Start a Spotlight

Multi-Spotlight - A meeting host can spotlight the sign language interpreter so they are always in view for everyone.A

1. Start a meeting or webinar as the host, or join and be assigned co-host.
2. Hover over the video of the participant you want to spotlight and click the ellipsis icon .
   Additional options for that participant are displayed.
3. Click Spotlight for everyone.
   
4. (Optional) To spotlight additional participants (up to 9 total), follow steps 2 and 3 again as needed, clicking on Add spotlight instead.
   

Cancel a spotlight

If only one participant is spotlighted, in the top-left corner of their video, click Remove spotlight.

If multiple participants are spotlighted and you want to remove them all, do the following:

1. In the top-right corner of the meeting window, click View .
2. Click Remove all spotlights.
   This will return the meeting to Speaker or Gallery view.

Accessibility Settings