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From: Karen Sorensen
Date: Apr 12, 2011 4:03PM

Hi Becca,
Thanks for posting this inquiry. Portland Community College offers
transcribing and captioning services for media in courses that have
Disability Services students (who qualify for this accommodation) enrolled.
However this makes for a crazy beginning of term since students can register
up through the first week of classes. I'm working on proposing a policy that
all online courses are developed to 508 Rehabilitation Act standards (which
includes captioning) and that we will offer captioning of media to every
faculty member (so not just faculty who have a DS student) with 3 weeks
advanced notice.

As I understand 508 though, media can be left uncaptioned if there is an
alternative method for the student to achieve the same learning outcomes. Do
others agree with this? That is the key to not needing to caption copyright
protected material.

Captioning is funded currently by our Instructional Support, Distance
Education and Disability Services departments.

I hope others will contribute how they handle media captioning and 508
standards in general. This is a very big issue for our college right now. In
my research I found the Kansas
State<http://www.k-state.edu/dss/k-access/policy.html>;and Sacramento
State <http://www.csus.edu/accessibility/index.html>; accessibility policies
and websites very helpful.

Best,
Karen

Karen Sorensen
PCC Instructional Technology Specialist
Coordinating ADA Compliance of Instructional Media
971-722-4720


Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:43:00 -0400
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I am seeking information as to what services are offered by various
institutions of higher education in the way of transcription and captioning
of audio and video . Our university offers these services, however, I would
like to get an idea of how many colleges or universities offer such services
and how they are funded; is the service institutionally funded or are there
any fees associated with those services (do the colleges or departments pay
or is it the responsibility of the instructor to cover the cost, etc.)?

I appreciate your taking the time to address this question and your efforts
in creating an accessible learning environment.

Thank you.

Becca Palmer
Transcription Service & Projects Coordinator
Instructional Development Center
Eastern Kentucky University
112 Crabbe Library, EKU Campus
521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, KY 40475

Phone: 859-622-1656
Fax: 859-622-1116