- From: Jeff Hiles <jeffrey.hiles@wright.edu>
- Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 09:49:29 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Our university faculty often want to use the same videos for their distance learning courses that they use in face-to-face classes. Our multimedia specialists can convert videos for streaming or CD-ROMs. They can even add tracks for captions and audio description. One thing we're trying to figure out, though, is how to get the captions and descriptions. The things I've read from the Caption Center and from Joe Clark lead me to believe that we need skilled professionals to describe and transcribe videos. http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/captioncenter/ http://www.joeclark.org/ Unfortunately, people here seem to think we should teach students to do captions and audio descriptions. Other proposals include not allowing video for distance learning courses at all, or only allowing faculty to use videos that come captioned and described. Does anyone know of schools that have faced this issue squarely and that could serve as good examples for how to support accessibility for videos used in distance learning classes? -- Jeff Hiles Instructional Web Designer Center for Teaching and Learning Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45435 (937) 775-3181 jeffrey.hiles@wright.edu
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