2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising utilizing one or more of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and text-to-speech conversion to determine the information describing the visually presented information.
1. A method for providing non-video communications to non-video enabled video conference participants comprising: recognizing visually presented information at a conference module; the conference module determining information describing the visually presented information; and forwarding by the conference module, based on preference information, the information describing the visually presented information to one or more destinations, wherein the one or more destinations are non-video enabled conference endpoints, wherein video content is not provided to at least a first one of the conference endpoints, and wherein the visually presented information is obtained from at least a second one of the conference endpoints.