Sign Language Interpreting or Live Professional Captioning (CART) Coordinated through the McBurney Disability Resource Center

Interpreting and Captioning, for All of UW-Madison

Bucky Badger using a stenography machine to make captioning.The McBurney Disability Resource Center coordinates sign language interpreting and live, professional captioning (CART) services for UW-Madison. Services can be provided for the following:

  • Students, staff, faculty, visitors, guests, and program participants at UW-Madison events
  • Disability-related accommodation requests and public access requests
  • Onsite and remote requests across UW-Madison functions
  • UW-Madison job applicants

Coordinating these services is a collaborative process involving the event host, the McBurney Center, and the participant or presenter requesting the accommodation.

Please provide information about your request as soon as you have a date and time, as coordinating requests and communication will take time. All requests are subject to Interpreter and CART caption provider availability, particularly requests made with short notice.

UW-Madison Departments, Programs, Student Organization Hosts, Event Coordinators, and UW Employees

UW Disability-Related Accommodation Request


Use this form if you have a UW NetID and would like to make a request for a disability-related accommodation for sign language interpreting or live captioning for yourself or someone else to attend or participate in an event.

Disability-related accommodation requests are funded centrally by campus.

UW Disability Accommodation Request

UW General Public Access Request


Use this form if you have a UW NetID and want to provide sign language interpreting or live captioning proactively for all attendees without a specific disability-related accommodation request from a participant.

Public Access requests are funded by the department sponsoring the event.

UW Public Access Request

UW-Madison Visitor, Program Participant, or Job Applicant

Visitors, Guests, Program Participants, and Job Applicants


Use this form if you do not have a UW NetID and would like to make a sign language interpreter or professional live captioning (CART) disability-related accommodation request as a UW-Madison visitor, program participant, or job applicant.

UW-Madison Visitor, Program Participant or Job Applicant Request (No UW NetlD)