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Re: Transcribing & Captioning in Higher Ed

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From: Giovanni Duarte
Date: Apr 13, 2011 6:54AM

Karen,
I was recently in a conference at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
The Keynote speaker was Daniel Goldstein from NFB, and he emphasized that we
need to provide "equal access" or same mainstream access to content. In
other words, if you have a course that have media components such as videos,
audio, or images, those should have the corresponding descriptions or
transcripts. We provide transcripts for every single video that is
developed. We have incorporated this as part of the development phase so
costs are "low". In other instances, we may have a new video that was not
developed by instructional design so we will send the video to a third party
vendor for transcripts.

The key, in my opinion, is to make accessibility part of your development so
it is more effective and you are not reacting to provide solutions.

Thanks,
Giovanni.