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Microsoft Teams Sign Language View AMA
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Tuesday, Dec 13, 2022, 09:00 AM PSTEvent details
We are very excited to announce a Microsoft Teams ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) specific to the new Sign Language View in Microsoft Teams Meetings!
The AMA will take place on Tuesday, December...
JohnSteckroth
Updated Aug 27, 2025
JohnSteckroth
Community Manager
Dec 13, 2022Welcome to the Microsoft Teams Ask Microsoft Anything for the new Sign Language View in Teams Meetings!
This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback directly to the team. Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread below.
To start, introduce yourself by replying to this thread and tell us where you’re logging in from!
- vlamponeDec 13, 2022Copper ContributorHello John, Thank you for doing this. The major issue I am having with Teams and the interpreter is screen sharing. If the client shares the screen, it is difficult to look at the client's screen and look at the interpreter back and forth. It would be awesome if the interpreter window can stay in front of all windows by default and I can drag it anywhere on the screen and it is not visible to the client. Just my thoughts. Thanks.
- billyhowellDec 13, 2022Copper ContributorHello. My name is Billy Howell and I am in North Carolina.
- billyhowellDec 13, 2022Copper ContributorIn case the technical staff who are responding are only monitoring this thread, my comment/question is... Hello. My name is Billy Howell and I am in North Carolina. As a technologist and a person who supports customers as a contractor, I have specific concerns around Teams and Teams Live events roadmap. Specifically ... For entities who are held accountable for considering accommodations for users who have protected statuses such as deaf and hard of hearing, the ambiguity between teams and teams live events makes it difficult to determine which features are actually present in each platform. Entities who have to select solutions which are bound by these considerations are unable to consider the Teams platform for large scale meetings because the limitation of 1000 users that teams has for video streaming means that users who rely on sign language interpreters cannot see the interpreter. Teams live events doesn’t have that technical restriction on video streaming, but the newest sign language view is not available in live events. I would ask if the appropriate priority can be placed on either unifying both platforms' feature sets used for accessibility OR the 1000 participant limit be addressed so that live events can be retired as the work around? The 1000 participant limit seems like an engineering resource constraint put on the product to prevent oversaturation of that platform's infrastructure. The lack of unified features between the platforms seems like a lack of development resources. Both seem addressable from an outside perspective.
- John Erwin MagnoDec 13, 2022Brass ContributorWill this work in a browser only? For people joining the call and the one who will do the sign language Will this be available for chromebooks
- John Erwin MagnoDec 13, 2022Brass ContributorWill there be a feature when i create a calendar, if an organization doesnt have someone knows how to do a sign language, and then book someone for an event. Just a thought that this can provide work for people and helping communities as well
- EmmaLHDec 13, 2022Brass ContributorHello, I'm Emma from London and I work for Avanade, we are interested in this feature and how we might use it going forward! Thank you!
- John Erwin MagnoDec 13, 2022Brass ContributorWill the recording be have an option for deaf to see the sign language clearly and for other are different? Or its balanced?
- MariaT1580Dec 13, 2022Brass ContributorHi, I'm Maria from Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, a UK not for Profit. I'm looking forward to learning more about this feature
- Ashes123Dec 13, 2022Copper ContributorGood morning, This seems like a strange way to hold a session when the feature is visual. I don't think my questions can be answered in this type of platform. I thought it would be a live meeting so we could see the features in use.
- John Erwin MagnoDec 13, 2022Brass ContributorHi i’m John Erwin from Philippines, How to enable this ? 1. Is it automatic or we need to enable it in admin, wanted to explore this feature and work with deaf community, 2. Do i need to have a special license for this 3. Is there a AI transcription if lets say people from deaf community are talking virtually?
- JohnSteckrothDec 13, 2022
Community Manager
Hey Everyone, I'm John Steckroth, currently logging in from Seattle, and I'm a community manager with the Tech Community. This is an exciting new accessibility feature for Microsoft Teams and we're excited to discuss it with the community!