How Accessibility for Universities and Students Has Changed in 2020
It’s safe to say the 2020 school year has not gone the way anyone expected. Midway through last semester, we all went home and everything moved online. For students who
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Live Captions
CART
Onsite or Remote CART for meetings, conferences, training sessions, civic events, special events and in the classroom.
Captioning
Closed or open captions merged with a visual for conventions, webinars and broadcast TV.
Text Interpreting
Meaning-for-meaning transcription designed for educational settings.
Post Captions
Open & Closed Captions
Closed captioning service enables you to get more value from your existing video content by appealing to a wider audience.
Transcription
We create a verbatim transcript of your video and audio files.
Translation
Let us translate your English video into other languages.
ASL Interpreting
Onsite ASL Interpreting
A nationwide network of certified ASL interpreters available whenever and wherever needed.
Video Remote Interpreting
VRI provides communication for people who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing anywhere, anytime.
Interpreter Training & Workshops
ACS provides interpreter CEUs, mentorship, study groups and workshops.
We have a passion for what we do, providing the best service to our clients from the introduction to the final invoice and evaluation.
We're committed to providing the highest quality
captioning and sign language interpreting to clients worldwide.
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Over the past 12 years we’ve made communication possible for thousands of people!
Here’s what a few of them have to say about their experience with ACS.
Alternative Communication Services (ACS) donates a portion of its profits to charitable causes supported by its employees.
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"With other relay services, the captioning was more than 5 seconds behind the conversation, that I sometimes took too long to jump in the conversation. Sheila did an awesome job with the captioning. I really love this service, and it is super-fast. Thank you!"
"I so appreciate your company’s flexibility and professionalism especially throughout these past few weeks. I am definitely impressed with your lightening response to our needs and willingness to be flexible. ASC came highly recommended to us—and I will gladly say the same when others ask about your service."
"I want to thank everyone for another great year of service! Your patience, professionalism and quality of service are top-notch!"
"ACS has been so easy to work with. You were helpful in getting the equipment we needed, setting up the training session and working all the little kinks out the startup. The student has been thrilled with the service as well. Thank you for making this seamless and so doable [by our team]. I will definitely be passing the ACS name along on my list serve when folks ask for a recommendation."
"I just wanted to thank you guys for a wonder job done by Rosalie! She went above and beyond the call of duty in captioning our show last night. The show contained a lot of music and all she needed to do was put in musical notes….but she actually did most of the music! It was great! I have worked with you guys for many years and every time I keep getting reminded about why I love working with your company. Thanks again."
"I just wanted to say thank you again for your willingness to work with us on a very late request for remote text interpreting of our Graduation ceremony. I will be in touch with you about working out on-screen captioning of future ceremonies (including in December). You guys are so wonderfully responsive and patient – I’m so glad to be working with such a great company!"
"I cannot tell you how ACS consistently provides the best service. Not only are you all the nicest but wonderfully professional, responsive and reliable. Trish was excellent, arrived earlier than we did and worked tirelessly. She was also so personable!"