On-site CART places a certified human stenographer directly at your event. Using a stenotype machine and real-time software, the stenographer converts spoken words into clear text that appears instantly for participants.

This option works especially well in classrooms, educational settings, conferences, seminars, presentations, and in-person meetings where clear audio capture and group viewing are important.

Remote CART delivers the same professional Communication Access Real-time Translation service without requiring the stenographer to be physically present. Using secure internet and Voice over IP technology, a certified human stenographer provides real-time captions from a remote location.

This flexible option is well suited for virtual meetings, webinars, online classes, hybrid events, and situations where travel is not practical.

Key Benefits

• Same professional accuracy and real-time performance as on-site service

• Greater flexibility for virtual and hybrid formats

• Convenient access on laptops, tablets, smartphones, or large displays

• Reduces travel costs while maintaining high quality

• Provides effective communication accommodations and accessibility

Remote CART gives you reliable human-powered captioning with added convenience and scalability.

Distance education and online learning continue to grow rapidly across colleges and universities. These formats allow students to participate from anywhere, but they also create new accessibility challenges. Professional real-time captioning and CART services help institutions meet those challenges by ensuring every student can fully access course content.

Realtime Ready Captions provides accurate, human-powered captioning and CART for live virtual classes, hybrid courses, recorded lectures, and other distance education formats. Our certified stenographers deliver clear, reliable text that supports both accessibility and reasonable accommodations for deaf and hard-of-hearing students as well as other learners who benefit from captions.

How We Support Distance Education

We work with colleges to make online and hybrid learning accessible through:

• Real-time CART for live virtual classes, webinars, and synchronous sessions

• Captioning for recorded lectures, videos, and multimedia content

• Integration with common platforms used in distance education, including Zoom, WebEx, LMS systems, and live-streaming tools

Our services help institutions expand access, improve student comprehension and retention, and maintain compliance with accessibility requirements.

Common Course Formats We Support

• Fully online courses

• Hybrid courses (with significant online delivery)

• Telecourses and live-streamed classes

• Virtual lectures and discussion sessions

Many community colleges have successfully used grant funding, such as the Distance Education Captioning and Transcription (DECT) grant, to provide captioning and CART for distance education courses. We can help your institution explore similar opportunities to expand accessibility.

By partnering with Realtime Ready Captions, colleges can deliver high-quality distance education that is truly inclusive and accessible to all students.

CART services for meetings, conferences, and conventions provide accurate real-time text so every participant can fully follow presentations, discussions, and keynotes. Certified human stenographers convert spoken words into clear text instantly, supporting deaf and hard-of-hearing attendees as well as visual learners, non-native English speakers, and anyone who benefits from written access.

Realtime Ready Captions offers both on-site and remote CART for these events. On-site CART places a stenographer at your venue for optimal audio quality and large-screen projection, making it ideal for multi-day conferences, conventions, corporate gatherings, and in-person seminars. Remote CART delivers the same professional accuracy from a secure internet connection, which works well for hybrid events, virtual conferences, webinars, and meetings where travel or on-site space is limited.

How It Works The CART provider captures live audio and produces real-time text that can be displayed on large projection screens, televisions, or message boards for the full audience, or sent to individual laptops, tablets, and smartphones via a secure link. This flexibility allows captions to reach both in-person and remote participants at the same time.

Key Benefits CART for meetings, conferences, and conventions provides immediate access to spoken content, improves comprehension and engagement for all attendees, and supports full participation in discussions and presentations. It creates an inclusive environment that meets accessibility needs and helps organizations fulfill ADA and reasonable accommodation requirements.

Whether you are hosting a corporate training, industry conference, annual convention, panel discussion, or multi-track event, Realtime Ready Captions delivers reliable human stenographic CART that ensures clear communication and equal access for every participant.