video accessibility: best practices for teaching and learning
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Online video has changed the landscape of education and corporate e-learning. For many educators and students, online video has become an important tool for teaching and learning. This change brings legal and ethical pressures to make video accessible for people with hearing disabilities. IT and Multimedia departments in many organizations and universities are faced with the many challenges of implementing accessible video for their institutions. Watch this webinar to learn about the efficient and cost-effective ways to meet these challenges. Speakers from the University of Florida and Regis University share their best practices and give advice to organizations who intend to have more accessible video for teaching and learning. The webinar covers the following topics: - Considerations for hosting, managing, and publishing accessible video - Strategies for accommodating special needs students - Impact of federal and state accessibility laws Presenters: Nicole Croy eLearning Technologist | Regis University Jason Neely Office of Distance Learning | University of Florida Josh Miller Co-Founder | 3Play Media Luda Ruditsky Director of Product Management | Kaltura Meytal Burstein Marketing Manager | KalturaTRANSCRIPT
Video Accessibility: Best Practices for Teaching and Learning May 22, 2012
Follow on Twitter: #videoa11y
Follow on Twitter: #videoa11y
Presenters Nicole Croy eLearning Technologist | Regis University Jason Neely Office of Distance Learning | University of Florida Josh Miller Co-Founder | 3Play Media Luda Ruditsky Director of Product Management | Kaltura Meytal Burstein Marketing Manager | Kaltura
Follow on Twitter: #videoa11y
Agenda Intro by 3Play Media
Intro by Kaltura
Presentation by Regis University
Presentation by University of Florida
Q&A
Feel free to type questions in the window during the presentation This presentation is being recorded and will be available for replay
Automated Captioning Workflow
Initiate captioning from Kaltura account
Captions automatically sent back to Kaltura
Turnaround as quick as 8 hours
Monitor job status
Ability to edit captions
Preload special terminology
Interactive Video Plugins
Few facts about Kaltura … The Leading Open Source Video Platform Flexible Framework For Building Robust Media Applications Over 150,000 Publishers on SaaS and thousands of Self Hosted 30,000 developers in the community – Kaltura.org Kaltura Exchange – The Only Video Solutions Marketplace Integrated with all major LMSs Dedicated applications to serve specific needs on campus Available as Commercial and Open Source
Highlighted Education Customers
Kaltura Education Building Blocks
Ingest Manage Distribute Publish Engage
Lecture Capture Transcoding CDNs LMSs
Social Sharing Remote Learning
Video & PPT upload
Online Video Editing editing
Partners Ecosystem – Education Market
Closed Captioning
Security & DRM Google
3PlayMedia – Premium Kaltura Exchange partner
Enterprise-Level Online & Blended Courses
465 Course Online
Roughly 60% include Video
http://www.regis.edu/regis.asp?sctn=facst&p1=cpsdld
We feel we have a duty to make ALL required course materials accessible
to ALL learners.
Resources for Captioning Requirements & Techniques
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#media-equiv Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAim) http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/
“an equivalent experience for all users.”
“All multimedia files have synchronized captions and/or provide transcripts for media.”
All required video is closed-captioned
Original Captioning Process
1 2
3
4 3-4 Days 5
6 7 8 9
Voice Text
Poor Accuracy =
Manual Text Clean-up
1 2
8 hrs -2 Days
3
4
Video publishing and accessibility
College of Education University of Florida
Video Content
• Over 800 videos on Kaltura
• Over 100 of those are transcribed
Accessibility in courses…
• Most videos used in courses are transcribed
• Other accommodations are made as needed
– Ex: Recorded ASL interpreter
Follow on Twitter: #videoa11y
Questions? Type your questions in the window Nicole Croy | Regis University [email protected] Jason Neely | University of Florida [email protected] Josh Miller | 3Play Media [email protected] Luda Ruditsky | Kaltura [email protected]