Video and audio – and even podcasts and live streams – must be accessible to everyone. Before you publish, make sure your multimedia content has the right accessibility aids.<\/p>\n
Per WCAG 2.0 Standards regarding multimedia<\/a> and SUNY Electronic & Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility Web Accessibility Standards<\/a>, all multimedia must:<\/p>\n The State of Nevada provides an informative breakdown of multimedia requirements by media type<\/a>. Another resource is Caption Key<\/a>, which provides “guidelines and best practices for captioning educational video.”<\/p>\n W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) created a video, “Video Captions – Audio Described Version<\/a>,” which is a great example of using both captions and audio descriptions to inform the audience of what is being communicated in the video.<\/p>\n Captions enable people who can’t hear to enjoy your video. They also help visitors who don’t understand spoken English or the speaker’s accent. They also give everyone convenient options such as watching the video on mute or watching, listening and reading at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n All videos posted on monroecc.edu must have captions. If your video is hosted on Vuja or an official MCC YouTube channel, take advantage of its auto-captioning features but then edit the captions<\/strong> for accuracy. No auto-captioning job is perfect. Look for misspellings – especially with proper names – and captions that are out of sync with the video.<\/p>\n Contact Instructional Technologies’ Video Services<\/a> for assistance with captions in Yuja.<\/p>\n Transcripts assist people who can’t hear or who process information differently. They also come in handy for skimming content quickly and for visitors who aren’t native English speakers.<\/p>\n Be sure to check out the training guides created by Stony Brook University for adding captions and transcripts to YouTube and Zoom videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n Important parts of a video can be totally visual, without dialogue. That’s where audio descriptions come in.<\/p>\n When your character smiles, walks toward her car, or pours liquid into a beaker, she probably won’t say so. An audio description (or a transcript) conveys actions like this so people who can’t see the video can still experience it. Think of audio descriptions as alternate (alt) text for video.<\/p>\n Audio descriptions can also help second language learners, and people with cognitive impairments or autism spectrum disorders.<\/p>\n W3C Web Accessibility Initiative’s Audio Description of Visual Information<\/a> gives several options for incorporating audio descriptions in your videos. Watch their audio description demonstration video<\/a> to see how useful audio descriptions can be.<\/p>\n Create Accessible Multimedia Video and audio – and even podcasts and live streams – must be accessible to everyone. Before you publish, make sure your multimedia content has the right accessibility aids. Per WCAG 2.0 Standards regarding multimedia and SUNY Electronic & Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility Web Accessibility Standards, all multimedia must: Provide synchronized captions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":373,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions\/1132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/web-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t
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