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 | Kaltura

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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

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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 ncroy@regis.edu Jason Neely | University of Florida jkneely@coe.ufl.edu Josh Miller | 3Play Media josh@3playmedia.com Luda Ruditsky | Kaltura Luda.Ruditsky@kaltura.com

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