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About this site · Accessibility

Accessibility

Larger text, high contrast and read-aloud, plus captions, ASL videos and joining meetings by phone.

Quick settings

What each one does
Text size

Your browser's zoom makes the text larger too: Ctrl and + (⌘ and + on a Mac).

On this site

Reading & display settings

Open them with the Aa button at the top of every page. They apply right away and stay on this device.

Your browser and device can help too

  • Zoom: Ctrl and + on Windows, ⌘ and + on a Mac; spread two fingers on a phone or tablet.
  • Bigger text everywhere: in your phone's Settings, under Display (Text size or Font size).
  • Reader view shows just the text: the reader icon in Safari or Firefox, Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge, Reading mode in Chrome.
  • Screen readers such as VoiceOver (iPhone, Mac), TalkBack (Android), Narrator or NVDA (Windows) read every page; headings and landmarks let you jump around.
  • Light or dark: the moon or sun button at the top, or the Dark mode switch at the top of the Menu (on phones). The site starts in your device's mode.

Videos

Captions on videos

Our Watch page plays the AA Grapevine and La Viña YouTube videos, with YouTube's own captions.

Go to Watch

Captions on every video

One tap, and every video on this site starts with captions, in this page's language when the video has them. It's saved on this device only; turn it off here or in the Aa panel.

Captions are on for every video on this site, on this device.

YouTube doesn't always follow this choice (some phones don't), and its automatic captions can get words wrong. If a video starts without captions, use its CC button, as shown below.

On our Watch page or a computer

  1. 1. Start a video.
  2. 2. Select CC (closed captions) at the bottom of the player, or press the C key.
  3. 3. For another language: the gear (Settings) → Subtitles/CC. “Auto-translate” offers more languages.

In the YouTube app

  1. 1. Tap the video once to show the controls.
  2. 2. Tap CC at the top of the player, or the gear or ⋮ menu → Captions.
  3. 3. Pick a language, or turn captions off the same way.

Captions depend on what AA Grapevine and La Viña provide for each video: captions they added, YouTube's automatic captions (marked “auto-generated”, and they can get words wrong) or none. We can't add or correct captions on their videos. Some ASL videos link a written transcript in their YouTube description.

American Sign Language

ASL videos

Stories and meetings signed in American Sign Language, from AA Grapevine and from AA itself.

AA Grapevine's ASL playlist

24 videos on the AA Grapevine & La Viña YouTube channel: members' stories and ASL Grapevine Night meetings, signed in ASL.

On our Watch page, choose “American Sign Language” in the Playlist menu. Go to Watch

Watch on YouTube (opens a new tab)

AA's own ASL videos

AA's General Service Office offers its basic books in ASL, free on aa.org.

Questions about ASL or other accessibility resources? AA's General Service Office: access@aa.org

Listen

Listen instead of reading

Podcasts, live meetings you can join by phone, and your own story told out loud.

See what each subscription includes

Meetings

Join meetings by phone

You can join meetings on Zoom with no internet or app: call a regular U.S. number and type the meeting ID. You'll hear the meeting and can speak.

Our meetings on Google Meet

Google Meet has no number to call for these meetings. To join from a phone or tablet, open the meeting link or type the meeting code into the Google Meet app.

No internet? Write to the chair, and we'll help you find a way to take part.

Email the chair

How to dial in

  1. 1. Call one of the numbers (any of them works).
  2. 2. When asked, type the meeting ID, then #.
  3. 3. Asked for a participant ID? Just press #.
  4. 4. Type the phone passcode, then #.

U.S. numbers

Zoom's dial-in numbers, as printed in its meeting invitations.

During the call

*6
Mute or unmute yourself
*9
Raise or lower your hand
  • Call charges may apply: these are regular U.S. long-distance numbers, not toll-free, so your phone plan's rates apply.
  • Joining by phone only works when the meeting's host allows it in Zoom.
  • The call button dials the number, the meeting ID and, when we have it, the passcode for you.
  • Your phone number may show, partly hidden, in the participant list.

Paper

Print and large print

Every page prints cleanly, and our monthly posters are made for Letter paper.

Print a page

  • Use your browser's Print: Ctrl+P on Windows, ⌘+P on a Mac, or Share → Print on a phone.
  • The menu, the footer (all but its copyright notice) and the moving vineyard art are left out of the printout.
  • For bigger print, raise the Scale in the print window, or choose a larger Text size first: the page prints at that size too.

Posters and large-print books

Our commitment

Our commitment and your feedback

We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA on every page, in English and Spanish.

What we tested

  • Every page was tested with automated accessibility checks, in light and dark mode.
  • Keyboard use, visible focus and screens from 320 pixels wide.
  • Text up to 150%, relaxed spacing and high contrast, with nothing cut off.
  • Plain words, and our own Spanish written by people; machine-translated content is marked.

Report a barrier

Something hard to see, hear or use? E-mail us the page, what you were trying to do and what happened. We read every message.

Videos, posts and documents from YouTube, Instagram, aagrapevine.org, aalavina.org and aa.org follow those sites' own accessibility.

Email us

grapevine@neta65.org