CAPTIONING AND ADA COMPLIANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATIONRobbie Melton, Phillip Voorhees

ADA/504 Compliance• Driving the conversation:

• Focus on Alternative Media & AT• “Effective As” Communication• “Substantially Equivalent Ease Of Use”

“Effective As” CommunicationPaul 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/media-equiv-captions.html

Captions (Live)http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/media-equiv-real-time-captions.html

• Described and Captioned Media Programhttp://www.dcmp.org/about-dcmp

Who Should Be Captioning?• We all should be captioning (distribution of resources)?

Content creatorsDistance Learning/Instructional TechnologistDisability ServicesMarketing PRTech Center/College/UniversitySystem

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/ccmain.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-captioning-apps-for-the-hearing-impaired

• MovieCaptioner• http://www.synchrimedia.com/

• Camtasia Studio• http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-captions.h

tml

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

• Bartlebyhttp://www.bartleby.com/

• Biblomaniahttp://www.bibliomania.com/

• Classic Bookshelfhttp://www.classicbookshelf.com/

• The Internet Public Libraryhttp://www.ipl.org/

• Helpful Humanities Resourceshttp://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/library/humanities

• The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Collectionhttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/

Alternative Format Resources Textbooks

• Online Books Pagehttp://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

• PennState's Online Book Pagehttp://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

• Project Guttenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/

• SafariXwww.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