When you provide audio or visual content in your courses, make sure it's accessible. But... there are some parameters to be aware of.
For spoken-word audio, this means providing a text transcript that exactly matches the posted audio content.
For video, this means providing accurate captioning.
Is your video "disposable," meaning one-time use only? (example: a recorded lecture from this term, explaining course directions just for this term, providing customized feedback for students this term, etc.) These videos actually don't require captioning since they won't be used again.
What is accurate captioning? At a minimum, accurate captioning includes:
capitalization
punctuation
2 lines of captioning per screen maximum
identical written and spoken information
time-synced written and spoken information
The Described and Captioned Media Program sponsored by the National Association of the Deaf and the U.S. Department of Education has provided a Captioning Tip SheetLinks to an external site. with an in-depth look at captioning suggestions.
YouTube Auto-Generated Captions
YouTube auto-generated captions are not accurate closed captions, and thus are not accessible. Captions need to be accurate in order for the video to be used for instruction. Determine if your captions are auto-generated by simply clicking on the "CC" icon in the lower right side of the video player.
If "auto-generated" appears next to the caption language in the upper left corner of the screen, the YouTube captions are not accessible.
Tutorial 4: Accessible Videos of the Creating Accessible Content self-paced tutorial explains the ins and outs of how to transcribe and caption the audio-visual information you post on your Canvas pages (available only to SWC users).
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