The Accessible Virtual Campus
Video
Videos have long been an important teaching tool. As technology makes video available to just about everyone who wants to create their own video for teaching or learning, more and more hearing impaired individuals are left out. Learn how to make video inclusive.
9 items: 4 internal 5 external
EqTD AUDIT
Use this AUDIT to evaluate the accessibility and usability of non-text graphics in a variety of media.
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
EqTD AUDIT
EqTD Manual
In-line EqTD AUDIT
Here is the AUDIT to use to evaluate the accessibility of in-line text characters that need to be treated as graphic elements for accessibility e.g. subscript, ampersand, foreign letters.
R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee
Video Closed Captioning Protocol
This protocol will help you to create a video with a caption track. Videos captioned with this method will be playable by older versions of QuickTime, back to QuickTime 3 (depending on video and audio code used).
Video Descriptive Track Protocol (Draft)
This protocol will help you create a video with an additional audio track that attempts to describe the visual component of the video. Note that the file created from this document will always have the additional track playing. We are currently examining the possibility of adding a toggle button.
Creating Video and Multimedia Products That Are Accessible to People with Sensory Impairments
Provides rationale, guidelines and web links to assure that multimedia content is accessible for students with hearing or vision impairments.
Burgstahler, S - Washington University DO-IT
NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
Free software authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with disabilities.
National Center for Accessible Media
Skills for Access: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning
Very comprehensive. Case studies, challenges to learning and related articles are presented in addition to the "how-to". "Making multimedia e-learning optimally accessible is not about ticking a checklist! All our advice encourages a thoughtful and analytic approach to addressing accessibility issues. Accessible e-learning is achieved by engagement, not by formula."
Skills for Access Project - UK
The Described and Captioned Media Program
The DCMP serves as a clearinghouse of information and materials on the subject of description and captioning for service to consumers, agencies, corporations, and schools. Clearinghouse offerings include numerous DCMP print and online informational resources as well as a gateway to accessibility information from the Web sites of the DCMP and its collaborators.'
Caption Max & National Association for the Deaf
Web Design References: Accessibility
Very comprehensive listing of resources for about 40 topics related to web accessibility. In addition to comprehensive information of web design accessibility, this page has links to more than 50 (!) links about writing alternative text. That should be enough to get you started.
University of Minnesota Duluth, Information Technology Systems & Services
