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From: Spruill Kevin
Date: Apr 7, 2008 10:10AM

Jan,

The videos must be captioned even if they're not yours - but utilizing
them as content in your course you're required to provide equivalent
access under Section 504 if my memory serves me correctly.

Kevin Spruill
IT Specialist
Information Resources Accessibility Program
OS:CIO:ES:BI:CS:IRAP:IT
Phone: (202) 283-7059
IRAP Web site: http://irap.web.irs.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Heck [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:27 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: [WebAIM] Linking to YouTube videos from course Web sites

Increasingly, our instructors are linking to YouTube videos or Flash
presentations from other sources. I know if we "built them" ourselves,
we would need to caption them. In the case of linking to others'
content, of course, we don't have the rights/permissions to caption and
re-post the captioned versions of such content. Obviously, there's no
audio descriptions for blind or visually-impaired students either. I'm
pretty sure we also don't have the right to post a transcript of the
linked video on our course Web sites (as perhaps the closest
approximation to a reasonable accommodation when we don't have access to
the video to caption it).

So here are my questions:
. My understanding is that all videos we produce must be
captioned,
whether the material is required or supplementary for the course.
. How does this get applied when there's a plethora of good
content
available "out there," but we don't have control over whether or not
it's captioned?
. How accessible is the YouTube interface in general terms?

I would love some input on this!

Thanks very much,

Jan Heck
Coastline Community College