Words appear: Communication Access Realtime Translation: CART Services for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
A CART machine hooked to a laptop.
Students take notes.
In an office, a student and a captioner.
On a large screen...
D'Wayne, student.
Jessie, student.
A large monitor in a classroom.
Samir, student. Samir signs. Subtitles: In lecure halls, like computer science programming classes with in-depth technical vocabulary it's useful because programs like Java have a lot of technical words that can be hard to interpret, but using CART, I can see the exact words and keep up. I'm not losing vocabulary that is hard to interpret.
The captioner follows a small group down a hall.
One participant uses a smart phone, another a laptop.
Eric, student. Eric signs: CART is neat because it is the closest to direct communication with a speaker. I can read the captions and catch specific things about how a speaker is communicating and what they're saying.
Samir signs: When class is finished they give me the transcript so I can read it. I can read through it after class in case I missed something or the interpreter missed something. It's useful for studying.
Jessie
Eric signs: CART is beneficial if you want to learn about people or if you want to pinpoint specifics and you don't want anyone to paraphrase for you because you could risk missing something.
For more information, consult: www.uw.edu/accesscomputing