This page contains a list of vendors who can help if you wish to outsource your digital accessibility remediation. These vendors are also in Bearbuy.
If you are a UC Berkeley employee and have great experiences with an existing accessibility vendor you would recommend, please email improving-accessibility@berkeley.edu.
Pre-recorded Audio and Video Transcriptions and Closed Captioning Files
- Echo Labs is a media-accessibility platform that offers UC Berkeley departments WCAG 2.1 AA captioning at institutionally negotiated rates.
- 3Play Media. Please review the UC form and fill out if you'd like UC pricing and to put in direct contact with the UC customer representative. Learn more: 3Play Media: Help Guides and Resources.
Live Captioning Services (CART)
Aberdeen Broadcast Services. Please contact Tony Baltayan, Sr. Sale Engineer at 949.216.1065 (Note: Please request Aberdeen to convert live captioned files using all caps to mixed case if you use them for both live captions and pre-recorded captions of the same video content.)
Document Remediation services (PDFs, Word, PPT, etc)
- Grackle Docs. UCB supplier. Please contact vendor or a quote: swalker@grackledocs.com
- Crawford Technologies. UCB supplier. Please contact the vendor for a quote: gsantos@crawfordtech.com
- Word Wizards, Inc. USB supplier. Please contact the vendor at 240.380.2635
Website Development and Hosting
- Open Berkeley. A campus-supported website platform built with accessibility in mind. Submit the Request Info form to learn more and get started. (Open Berkeley also addresses requirements related to security, privacy, and maintenance issues.)
- Linea Creative (formerly Computer Courage). Please contact the vendor by email Sam@lineacreative.com or phone 510.440.3202.