Video: How VHEAP is shaping the future of higher education accessibility

Check out our new video featuring Korey Singleton from George Mason University and Mark Nichols from Virginia Tech as they discuss how Virginia Higher Education Accessibility Partners (VHEAP) promotes collaboration between educational institutions, state agencies and vendors to enhance accessibility in higher education and K-12 settings.

Comprised of professionals within the disability and accessibility fields, VHEAP provides guidance and serves as an advocate in advancing greater inclusion and participation of individuals with disabilities in education and employment opportunities.

Verbit has been a VHEAP captioning and accessibility partner since 2018, providing high-quality live and post-production captions and audio description services for the system’s associated schools and institutions. We help make lectures, commencements, sporting events and all other video content more accessible and engaging to students, faculty and the university community.

We specialize in purpose-built accessibility solutions for education, leveraging a blend of proprietary technology and optimization to provide captioning, transcription, translation and audio description that’s accurate and affordable. Our solutions – built to satisfy ADA requirements – integrate seamlessly with the most popular Learning Management Systems (LMS), media platforms and video conferencing software.

Reach out today and speak to one our experts to learn more about Verbit’s education and accessibility services.