Google Meet now lets you pin multiple video feeds
Last month, Google announced a handful of accessibility features across several of its services for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, includingmulti-pin for Google Meet and alt-text functionalityfor Gmail images. First, Gmail alt text started rolling out immediately, and now, multipin is arriving for users.
Meet multipinallows users to attach up to three items in Google Meet, including participants and presentations. Google introduced the feature to aid people with disabilities (such as those who are deaf or hard of hearing) to see both a presenter’s screen and a sign language interpreter’s screen simultaneously during online meetings. But you could quickly see how this feature could be helpful for just about everyone who uses Meet.
To pin a tile such as a participant or a presentation, hover over the particular item and clickPin. If they’re not on the layout, go to the bottom right of your screen, click thePeople panel, and select thePeople Tab. Then you can clickPinnext to the participant or presentation. Once you’ve pinned the maximum number of items allowed, you get a prompt. Meanwhile, hover over a tile and clickUnpinto unpin someone.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day saw Google introduce the ability to add alt-text to images in Gmail so that people who use screen readers can tell what the attachments sent to them are about. It even announced audio descriptions for eligible YouTube Originals content to make videos more accessible for those with visual impairments.
In other news, Google ismerging two of its most popular communication platforms, Meet and Duo. The merger will see the company move all the Google Meet features, including scheduled meetings, in-meeting chat, and content sharing, into the Duo app in the coming weeks. However, the software will eventually be renamed Google Meet later this year, while Meet as we know it will become Meet Original before being deprecated.
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