September 8, 2020:  Start your captioning to-do list for one module

Accessibility Goal of the Week

Captions allow the content of audio and video to be accessible to those who do not have access to audio. Though captioning is primarily intended for those who cannot hear the audio, it has also been found to help students with learning disabilities, students who may not be fluent in the language in which the audio is presented, students for whom the language spoken is not their primary language, students in a noisy environment, etc.

Today’s goal deals with examining a small portion of your course to determine its captioning needs.  Here's a Word doc you can use to help organize your to-do list (just focus on columns 1-5 for this week's goal).  

  1. In one of your Canvas courses, select one week/module/unit to examine. 
  2. Look at each video within that section and answer the following questions:
    1. Am I the author of this video, or did someone else make it?
    2. Are captions present for this video?  Can I figure out how to turn them on/off?
    3. Do the captions include punctuation, or is it just one long sentence stream?
    4. Are the captions accurate?  Are there words spoken in the video that are written incorrectly in the captions?
  3. For longer videos, you should only need to view a minute or two to determine whether B and C above will require more attention.
  4. Make a note of what you found in your inventory.  Here's a Word doc you can use to help organize your to-do list (just focus on columns 1-5 for this week's goal).  

Next week, we will take the information from your inventory and discuss strategies for how to fix any issues you found.  

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