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Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community

Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community. Crowdsourcing Accessibility. We believe there is much to learn from [the experiences of people with disabilities] that can be either directly applied or adopted into new mainstream crowdsourcing systems. -- Bigham & Ladner, 2011.

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Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community

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  1. Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community

  2. Crowdsourcing Accessibility We believe there is much to learn from [the experiences of people with disabilities] that can be either directly applied or adopted into new mainstream crowdsourcing systems. --Bigham & Ladner, 2011

  3. Tools: Captioning Amara Caption and translate YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5. Syncs with YouTube accounts. dotSub Caption and translate any digital video format

  4. Learn more about Amara

  5. Tools: Described Audio YouDescribe A project of the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center. Add extended audio description to YouTube videos.

  6. Learn More About YouDescribe

  7. Tools: Image Description POET An open source image description tool from Benetech’s DIAGRAM center. Works with DAISY files. EPUB3 coming soon!

  8. Learn More about POET

  9. Engaging the Campus Community • Through crowdsourcing, accessibility shifts from the purview of one office to the entire campus community • As awareness increases across campus, we hope that more media will be “born accessible.”

  10. Connections to the Curriculum • Service Learning • Extra Credit • Student Engagement • Accessibility impacts (and can inspire) all areas of the curriculum

  11. Models Beyond the Curriculum • Accessibility Hackathons • Knowbility’s OpenAIR • RNIB’s Accessibility Hackathon • Accessibility Charettes • Accessible Trails • re: Streets

  12. Universal Access Committee • Key decision makers from across campus • Encourages cross-college collaboration to ensure all programs, services, facilities, and technologies are universally accessible to people with disabilities • Shared responsibility for accessibility • Promotes principles of universal design on a system-wide level

  13. Administrative Challenges to Crowdsourcing • Over 60,000 students • 10 campuses in the metropolitan area • Adjunct faculty • Increase in Hybrid or Flipped classes • 352 sections identified last semester • Compatibility with digital repositories • Equella & Kaltura

  14. Pros & Cons: DIY Captioning • 50 videos free • Student workers and other employees can help add captions • Faculty can add captions to their own videos • Raises awareness of Universal Design • Funding for a system-wide approach • Administrative burden • Faculty perceptions • Software compatibility • Quality control

  15. Learn More • Bigham, J.P. & Ladner, R.E. (2011). What the disability community can tell us about interactive crowdsourcing. interactions 18(4), 78-81. • Kremer, K. (n.d.) Facilitating accessibility through crowdsourcing. http://karenkremer.com/kremercrowdsourcingaccessibility.pdf • Pearson, R. (2012, 8 Nov). “Crowdsourcing the components of accessibility.”AccessIQ.http://www.accessiq.org/news/commentary/2012/11/crowdsourcing-the-components-of-accessibility

  16. Contact Us Candida Darling Melissa Helquist Associate Professor, English melissa.helquist@slcc.edu 801-957-4713 Director, Disability Resource Center candida.darling@slcc.edu 801-957-4659

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