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From: Jan Heck
Date: Apr 3, 2008 5:30PM

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