CAPTIONING AND
ADA COMPLIANCE IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
Robbie Melton, Phillip Voorhees
ADA/504 Compliance
• Driving the conversation:
• Focus on Alternative Media & AT
• “Effective As” Communication
• “Substantially Equivalent Ease Of Use”
“Effective As” Communication
Paul Grossman – California Community Colleges
• In construing the conditions under which
communication is as effective as that provided
to nondisabled persons, the U.S. Department
of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has held
that the three basic components of
effectiveness are:
• timeliness of delivery,
• accuracy of the translation, and
• provision in a manner and medium appropriate to the significance
of the message and the abilities of the individual with the disability
“Substantially Equivalent Ease Of Use”
• the DCL provides a functional definition of accessibility for
students who are blind or have low vision. Under this definition,
• these students must be afforded the opportunity to acquire the same
information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same
services as sighted students.
• In addition, although this might not result in identical ease of use
compared to that of students without disabilities,
• it still must ensure equal access to the educational benefits and
opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the
use of such technology. The DCL uses the term “substantially
equivalent ease of use” to describe this concept. Page 2, 2011
DCL/FAQ.
Alternative Media Formats
• Captioning
• Environments and types of delivery
• Standards
• Who should be captioning?
• Resources
• Alt Format Textbooks
• Attendee Survey
• The most meaningful resource
• Various Resources
Captioning
• Attendee Survey
• Environments and types of delivery
• Standards
• Who should be captioning?
• Resources
Environments and types of delivery
• Asynchronous
• Classroom/Lab
• Canned captioning
• Creator, Vendor, etc.
• Online
• Canned captioning
• Creator, Vendor, etc.
Environments and types of delivery
• Synchronous
• Classroom
• Broadcast/CART
• Canned captioning
• Hybrid
• Broadcast/CART
• Canned captioning
• Online
• Broadcast/CART
• Canned captioning
Standards
• WCAG 2.0
Captions (pre-recorded)
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/mediaequiv-captions.html
Captions (Live)
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/mediaequiv-real-time-captions.html
• Described and Captioned Media Program
http://www.dcmp.org/about-dcmp
Who Should Be Captioning?
• We all should be captioning (distribution of
resources)?
Content creators
Distance Learning/Instructional Technologist
Disability Services
Marketing PR
Tech Center/College/University
System
Star Trek!
• The wish for speech recognition lecture capture
• Some models use dictation to transcript to
captioning software
• “accuracy of the translation”
• National Verbatim Reporters Association
(NVRA) and the American Association of
Electronic Reporters and Transcribers (AAERT)
98% accuracy on transcripts (industry standard)
Captioning Resources
• A State Model - High Tech Center Training Unit
• http://www.htctu.net/divisions/altmedia/captioning/cc/cc
main.htm
• Vendors (content)
• Ask the content provider for captioning
• Vendors (aftermarket/outsourced production)
• http://www.wgbh.org/about/disabilityservices.cfm
• Approved Captioning Service Vendors – DCMP
• YouTube Ready Qualified Captioning Vendors – DCMP
Captioning Resources
• Software
• Apps for Captioning
• http://www.healthyhearing.com/content/articles/Techn
ology/Wireless/47850-The-best-phone-captioningapps-for-the-hearing-impaired
• MovieCaptioner
• http://www.synchrimedia.com/
• Camtasia Studio
• http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasiacaptions.html
Alternative Media Formats
• Is the most meaningful resource a
centralized source for captioning
and alternative format textbooks?
Alt Format Textbooks
• Attendee Survey
• The most meaningful resource
• Adopting the current national model
• High Tech Center Training Unit Alternate
Media
• When will book vendors provide Alt
Format?
• Various Resources
Alternative Format Resources Textbooks
HTCTU Alternate Media
• http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-book-news
• Alternative Text Resources - Boston University
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped (NLS)
• http://www.loc.gov/nls/index.html
• TN LBPH http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/lbph/index.htm
• American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
• http://www.aph.org/
• Bookshare
• https://www.bookshare.org/
Alternative Format Resources Textbooks
• Bartleby
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http://www.bartleby.com/
Biblomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Classic Bookshelf
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/
The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Helpful Humanities Resources
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/library/humanities
The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/
Alternative Format Resources Textbooks
• Online Books Page
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
PennState's Online Book Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Project Guttenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
SafariX
www.safarix.com
ePub
http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub
Free AT?
• Free v. Fee Software:
• Attendee survey
• Free magnification and screen reading
simultaneously? (magnification with
speech)
• System Access To Go & MS Magnifier
• Native or Third Party
• AT - there is a reason why it costs
AT Resources
• http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
• http://www.microsoft.com/enable/at/matvplist.aspx
• http://wac.osu.edu/conferences/emrc08/free_at.html
• Free assistive technology RNIB
• http://access.uoa.gr/ATHENA/eng/pages/home
• http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/07/free-
assistive-technology-tools-to-make.html
News from CSUN
• Native or Third Party AT
• Web App or Platform App
• 508 and App development
• textHELP in Google Docs
• AccessNote
• AccessNote is the official iOS notetaker from the American
Foundation for the Blind.
AT Apps – Robbie Melton