Making Content Accessible
What are the three main angles that the online instructor should cover when making their course content, including videos, accessible for those with disabilities?
First and foremost to plan the videos and make sure they are needed. Then provide captioning, transcripts, and the ability to review as many times as needed. A description of everything going on in the video is required.
-Chris
The instructor should provide make sure captions, transcripts and audio recording describing the video are available so they make be understood by those with visual disabilities.
Chastity,
So glad to hear that your institutition has things in place to help you the instructor assist students with disabilities. And yes, the institution can get into deep trouble by not complying or ignoring students with disabilities. keep up the good work!
Renee Shaffer
According to the great information I learned, professors should caption video with audio. In fact, I was shocked to learn that if course videos or multimedia are not closed captioned, the entire school and/or online learning program is subject to a lawsuit based on discriminatory practices.
Much of what is required for online students, I was glad to learn that our university currently does. We record all our chats and archive them. Professors have constant contact with our Office of Disability Services so we have access to a student's individualized plan. This helps!
We also have a symbol next to our student's names on the roaster, which prompts us to contact the student and have protocols in place to accommodate the student.
Mara,
The education world would be so much better for those with disabilities if instructors could help out with any of these angles. Thanks for your insight during this course.
Renee Shaffer
The first angle that an online instructor should be concerned with is digitizing the course content. This can be done by recording audio for a presentation or video using a digital recorder, microphone or headset.
The second angle is to provide captioning for presentations or documents. The third angle is provide transcripts of course materials ahead of time.
The three main angles are: 1) digitalizing, which means to capture it in a form that can be displayed on a monitor screen… 2) captioning which accommodates learners with auditory impairment and 3) transcribing, which means to make sure that all the content can be viewed in an alternate form, before the student arrived at that point in the course. Thank you. Mike Crowley
Parrish,
With careful upfront planning, instructors can make their content available long before there is a request for an accomodation. Eveyrone wins.
Renee Shaffer
The three main angles that the online instructor should cover when making their course content, including videos, accessible for those with disabilities are 1) digitalizing, 2) captioning and 3) transcribing the course materials ahead of time. This saves them from having to go back and do it later, and does the student a great service in that they will not have to wait long for the content to be accessible after they put in their request for an accomodation.
