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Strategies for Accessible Multimedia

Learn about the rise of multimedia at ACC, the challenges faced, and the available strategies for captioning and transcribing media content. Find out how ACC implemented these strategies, the challenges encountered, and how they were overcome.

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Strategies for Accessible Multimedia

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  1. Strategies for Accessible Multimedia Lee Christopher, Director eLearning, Arapahoe Community College Raj Sen, Instructional Designer, Arapahoe Community College

  2. Learn about the rise of multimedia at ACC • Learn about the challenges with the rise • Understand the available strategies for captioning and transcribing media content • Learn about how we implemented at ACC, the challenges we faced and how we overcame them Outcomes of the Session

  3. The Rise of Multimedia at ACC

  4. Lack of centralized location of videos • Inconsistent formats • Inability to play across platforms (PC, MAC & Mobile) • Slow loading due to high buffering times Problems Associated with the Rise of Multimedia

  5. And most importantly… None of it was accessible AND We were not even thinking about accessibility! Problems Associated with the Rise of Multimedia Continued…

  6. Eye Opener

  7. Met with disability services • Training with disability services • Researched extensively Universal Design for Learning (UDL) • Self-assessed the scope of UDL in our department • Set up processes for making multimedia accessible Next Steps

  8. Closed-captioning for videos • Transcripts for audio lectures Strategies for accessible Multimedia

  9. Hire third party captioning service • Captioning on YouTube • Captioning using Camtasia Studio 8.0 • Speech to text software (Dragon Naturally Speaking) for transcriptions • Transcribing using foot pedals (Infinity USB) and software (FTW Transcriber) • Plain old transcribing Implementation Options

  10. Captioning (YouTube and Camtasia Studio 8.0) • Transcripts (Infinity Foot Pedal and FTW Transcriber application) Implementation at ACC

  11. Staff • Tracking of videos • Time of completion Challenges with Implementation

  12. Hire Work Study Students • Two-week pilot to estimate time to caption a minute of video • Design a Caption Estimator Solutions

  13. Audio description for videos Future Considerations

  14. Questions??Contact us:lee.Christopher@Arapahoe.eduraja.sen@Arapahoe.edu

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