Education accessibility services for higher ed and eLearning

Make learning accessible to your students with Verbit’s captioning, transcription, and audio description solutions. Our platform supports ADA, WCAG, and Section 508 compliance and is purpose-built for classrooms, lectures, LMS platforms, and virtual learning environments. Scale live captioning and transcription efforts across your entire campus and online offerings with Verbit.

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Accessible learning technology that supports student equity

Real-time accessibility tools to help colleges & universities improve learning outcomes

Accessibility solutions built for modern education environments

Our technology enhances engagement for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, non-native English speakers, neurodivergent learners, or anyone who benefits from multimodal learning formats.

  • Live Instruction & Hybrid Classrooms: Real-time captions, CART-style transcription and secure transcripts delivered to in-room screens, remote learners, or personal devices and document support for accommodations.

  • On-Demand Course Content: Captioning, subtitling, transcription, and audio description for recorded lessons or archived course content inside LMS platforms like Blackboard, Anthology, Canvas, and more.

  • Campus Events & Online Programs: Support accessible graduation ceremonies, guest lectures, athletics broadcasts, webinars, info sessions, admissions events, conferences, and career fairs.

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A single plan for ADA Title II & institutional compliance

Meeting accessibility requirements can feel overwhelming. Verbit’s platform combines AI automation with human-level quality assurance when accuracy, funding, or legal compliance requires it. Verbit’s new Campus Complete subscription plan helps institutions meet accessibility standards confidently by streamlining compliance with tools and workflows that align with:

  • ADA Title II

  • WCAG 2.1 AA

  • Section 508

  • Accessibility accommodation requests & disability services workflows

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Our products & accessibility solutions for universities

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Live Captioning

Get live captions for live lectures, hybrid classes, webinars and campus events.

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Venue Live

Caption campus events like graduation ceremonies, sports games, and conferences.

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Live Translation

Real-time translation for events or lectures in 28+ languages.

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Post-Production Captioning

Closed captions and transcripts for pre-recorded media, such as lectures, videos and content embedded in your learning management system (LMS).

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Archive Captioning

Caption your institution’s curated and archived video libraries and content, from digital library archives to oral histories.

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Multi-Language Subtitling

Translate and subtitle your university’s LMS content, promotions, and events to reach international audiences.

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Audio Description

Make video, media and recorded lessons accessible for students who are blind or have low vision with in-depth, objective descriptions of visual content.

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Language Dubbing

Add dubbed audio tracks to your classroom, admin, training videos and promotions to expand your audience reach.

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Note Taking

Transform class lectures, academic research, administrative discussions and community events into helpful, organized notes for students and faculty, with options for summaries.

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Why education leaders choose Verbit

With technology like CaptivateTM for education, Verbit helps institutions generate and provide accurate captions and transcripts to engage students, faculty, and the university community. Research continues to show that captions and transcripts support:

  • – Comprehension, retention & academic performance
  • – ESL/ELL and multilingual learners
  • – Note-taking and studying efficiency
  • – Engagement with remote and asynchronous learning

About accessibility compliance at Verbit

Our captions, transcripts, and audio description are designed with Americans with Disabilities Act Title II, WCAG, and Universal Design for Learning in mind. We are committed to inclusion and helping each customer reach their digital accessibility goals.

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Helpful Gen AI for students & faculty

Our generative AI tool, Gen.V™, offers students and faculty with helpful transcript insights from their studies, lectures and research, including automatic summaries, quizzes, chapters, headlines, and keywords.

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Technology designed for advanced coursework

Verbit’s proprietary speech recognition technology, Captivate™, and video accessibility solutions deliver on the caption accuracy needed even on niche educational topics, including STEM and graduate-level content. We apply continuous machine learning to provide greater accuracy to meet accommodation requests, accessibility requirements and more.

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Improve accessibility on your campus

Verbit offers education accessibility services for universities & schools to reach compliance with ADA and WCAG standards for education.

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Helpful time-saving integrations

Our wide range of integrations for common LMS, video platforms, and video conferencing streamlines the process of offering captioning services like live captions and CART captions.

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Access to education experts

With Verbit, you’ll have a dedicated education specialist and access to education experts. Collaborate to address your institution’s accessibility needs, receive guidance on accessibility laws, and best practices for disability support services.

Verbit’s Smart Player for education

Layer extended audio descriptions and closed captions over any online video with interactive playback features like transcript search, clip and share and more. The Smart Player‘s capabilities are invaluable to students and faculty as they learn and research.

Recommended content

Whether you’re modernizing accessibility programs, responding to student accommodation requests, or preparing for ADA/WCAG compliance, our content is designed to guide you.

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Why captions and transcripts are essential in higher ed

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Hear from customers using Verbit’s live captioning and transcription for educational accessibility

Explore why thousands of higher education professionals choose to partner with Verbit. Discover case studies and customer quotes of their firsthand experiences to learn how our team supports the diverse needs of education and eLearning.

“As a large organization, we’ve had a really good experience with Verbit, and that’s why we keep renewing the contract every year. You know, we keep coming back to the service.”
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Roberto Santiago Associate Director, Disability Program, San Franscisco State University
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Pricing for academic needs

Contact us for a custom plan or discover Campus Complete, your all-in-one accessibility subscription for ADA Title II compliance and campus-wide inclusion.

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