Louisiana Commission for the Deaf delays start while testing captioning and interpreter audio

The Louisiana Commission for the Deaf (LCD) delayed the formal start of its meeting to troubleshoot captioning and interpreter audio before calling the session to order.

The chair, identified in the transcript as the chair (speaker 1), led multiple checks of captioning and requested that both ASL interpreters and voicing interpreters be visible on screen. "I'd like to see the ASL interpreters on screen if possible," the chair said during repeated testing.

A staff member circulating the public comment sign-up told attendees, "There is a paper if you wanna sign up for public comment," alerting in-person participants to the process for delivering comments.

At 9:55 a.m., Chairperson Crosby (speaker 3) called the meeting to order and asked the secretary to take roll. "We're gonna call on our secretary to do the roll call," Crosby said, marking the transition from technical checks to procedural business.

Both the chair and Chairperson Crosby directed remote viewers to change how they were watching. "If you are using YouTube, please turn it off," Crosby said, adding that the commission had posted a Zoom link on la.gov for viewers to use "for obvious technical reasons." The announcement repeated that the la.gov site hosts the authorized Zoom stream for the meeting and asked viewers to use that link rather than the YouTube feed.

The record shows no motions or votes during the testing and announcement period; meeting business proceeded after roll call. The meeting materials referenced the LCD web presence (la.gov) as the location for the authorized Zoom stream.

Next steps: the meeting continued with roll call and the posted agenda after captions and interpreter audio were confirmed and remote-viewing instructions were issued.