able player & video accessibility at uw
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Able Player, YTCA, & Video Accessibility at the University of Washington
Terrill ThompsonTechnology Accessibility Specialist
University of Washington
http://uw.edu/accessibility
Public Videos
• 57 known UW-affiliated YouTube channels
• Over 7,000 videos
• Nearly 2,500 hours of programming
• At least 18 videos with over 100,000 views
• Cost to caption (@ $2/min) = $300,000
• Cost to describe (@ $10/min) = $1.5 Million
Lecture Capture
• As of Fall 2016:
– 58,370 videos in our system
– 9,914 videos (over 6 million minutes) viewed
• Cost to caption (@ $2/min) = $12 million
• Cost to describe (@ $10/min) = $60 million
Undue burden?
No.
Why Making Accessible Video Isn't an Undue Burden
• Cost of Producing a 10-minute
documentary-style video: $10,000
• Cost to caption (@ $2/min) = $20 (0.2%)
• Cost to describe (@ $10/min) = $100 (1%)
Why make a video if you don't want people to access it?
<video src="myvideo.mp4"></video>
You want people to play it.
<video src="myvideo.mp4" controls></video>
You want people to know what's being said.
<video src="myvideo.mp4" controls><track kind="captions" src="mycaptions.vtt">
</video>
You want people to know who's saying it.
<video src="myvideo.mp4" controls><track kind="captions" src="mycaptions.vtt"><track kind="descriptions" src="mydesc.vtt">
</video>
You want everyone to access it!
Able Player
• https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer
• Free, open source, HTML5 media player – Full support for HTML <track> element (captions,
subtitles, descriptions, chapters, & metadata)
– Chapters, captions, & descriptions are automatically assembled into an interactive transcript
– Fully accessible player controls
– Supports multiple versions of a video (described vs non-described); user can toggle using "Description" button
– Can play YouTube videos
How UW Does Accessible Video
• Disability Resources for Students (DRS) and Disability Services Office (DSO) provide funding and support for captioning and audio description if individuals request it as an accommodation
• UW-IT Accessible Technology Services (ATS) provides internal grant funding for making high impact videos accessible as universal design practice
• ATS provides training and support (2 staff)
Evangelizing Accessible Video
• Talking up the benefits
• Offering support – One-on-one consultation
– Group trainings
• Building Community– IT Accessibility Liaisons
– Captioning parties
• Providing resources – Website with detailed instructions
– Videos to help promote the cause
– Centralized "seed" funding
How We Manage Our Internal Captioning Grant
• UW-IT secures central pool of funding
• The word is spread through publications, talks, videos, user groups, etc.
• People apply (simple application form; no deadline)
• Applications reviewed by committee
• Priority goes to videos that are: 1. Highly visible,
2. High impact,
3. Multiple use, and/or
4. Strategic
We build tools to support our video accessibility goals
• Able Playerhttps://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer
• YouTube Caption Auditor (YTCA)https://github.com/terrill/ytca
YTCA helps us to prioritize.
For More Information…
• UW Accessible Technology http://uw.edu/accessibility
• Creating Accessible Video http://uw.edu/accessibility/videos
• DO-IT Videoshttp://uw.edu/doit/videos