Office: Sign language interpreter in Teams

Hello

we often use MS Teams for meetings where we share presentations. We invite sign language interpreters to the meeting when deaf or hard of hearing people attend the meeting. We can ask the sign language interpreter to "pin" the video stream of the deaf or
hard of hearing people and we can ask the deaf or hard of hearing people to "pin" the video stream of the sign language interpreter when we have a conversation. So far so good.

However, but when a presenter shares a presentation screen, this screen is in full screen modus, and the sign language interpreter and deaf and hard of hearing people "disappear" to the small bar below. Deaf and hard of hearing people can click on the video
screen to enlarge the video of the sign language interpreter in full screen modus and swap between the presentation and the sign language interpreter, but the two screens cannot be seen in sufficient quality. Same for the sign language interpreter, who can
click on the video screen of the presenter, but cannot see the screen of the presentation at the same time.

The problem we have is that we found no way in which the sign language interpretation and presentation sharing work well together. The shared screen cannot be resized, while the other ("pinned" or not) video streams cannot be enlarged. Is there a technical
solution that we are not aware of or is there any solution in sight to solve this issue?

regards

Peter

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Hi Klaver,

Thanks for reaching out! I’m an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Teams user like you.

Unfortunately, 2 video while screen sharing is not yet supported by Teams, I highly encourage you to vote and submit this features on Microsoft User Voice.

Microsoft Teams UserVoice they review feedback here and consider for the development of their future release.

Alternatively, you may want to maximize live caption. while in share screen mode. this is the solutions for deaf or hard hearing participants.

please see this link
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-...(US)%20for%20now.

Hope this helps.

Regie S.

 

Hi Regie

thanks a lot for that. I will definitely vote. The live caption option could help but as far as I know most of our users use the German version. I'll keep an eye on those developments too.

best

Peter

 

Hi Klaver,

Thank you for your reply,

Goodluck on your vote, moreover live caption support German language if in case you want to try it.

Have a nice day.

Regie S.