Let's hope this has a ripple effect and that ASR captions become available in everyone's breakout rooms. Sara

Thankyou for doing this advocacy…and education! Julie Olson HLAA in Wisconsin

Thanks for your motivation. I wouldn't have pursed this without your input. Sara

Thanks Carolyn. Yes. Zoom and I had different definitions of "live." Theirs didn't require a human being. Sara Oser

Thanks so much Sue. Now there are lots of possible activities for the breakout rooms for people with hearing loss. Sara Oser

Sara, what great news! I'm going to forward your email immediately to everyone in our chapter who's involved with technology. Good for you for following through on this! Sue

Awesome information, Sara! Thank you for educating the Zoom people! Sometimes we get miscommunications even when we are all speaking the same language. :)

YAY!!!! I'm so glad that worked out! Thanks so much for persevering!! Arlene Arlene Romoff Past President, Hearing Loss Assn of America - NJ State Assn Author, Hear Again - Back to Life with a

Good news. We now have ASR captions in our Zoom breakout rooms. I did this by filling at a support ticket in our HLAA NB zoom.us account. Zoom acknowledged receipt of the ticket. Later they

Initial investigation into Meet and Team seems to have the same results - neither specifically says captions are unavailable in breakout rooms, but instructions and features available lend credence to

Thanks for the tip! I contacted Zoom yesterday and requested breakout room captions be activated for the HLAA Diablo Valley Chapter Zoom account. Let's see what happens. Ann Thomas

Sara, let us know what Zoom says. This is their support article on captioning in breakout rooms. Do not confuse breakout rooms with Zoom Rooms. They are not the same. Managing manual captioning –

Thanks so much Arlene. I didn't realize that Zoom could do that. That's very helpful information. Sara Oser

There are newer connection systems than HDMI, but it is possible to get adaptor devices that convert HDMI to a newer system.

Zoom can provide captioning in their breakout rooms - they just don’t enable them unless insisted on. You can contact Zoom and tell them you need captioning for breakout rooms, and tell them to

We would like to have a virtual Kaffee Klatch using breakout rooms so that people could get to know each other in small groups. They would spend maybe 6 minutes in a group and would progress through

Thanks for the information Bob. I have connected an ipad to a projector using an HDMI cable (I think), and that worked. As we know, the technology can be different on whatever system we are using.

Sara We last bought a projector for our meetings about five years ago. We haven’t used it in years (Pandemic). But I did check the size of the wall mounted screen and looked to find a projector

Thanks John. That's helpful. Sara Oser

Thanks for the explanation, Carol. Now I get it. That's very helpful. Sara Oser