{"id":238,"date":"2012-07-25T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.oli.cmu.edu\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2012-08-31T19:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:25:48","slug":"accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community.oli.cmu.edu\/create-with-oli\/accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"quickFact\">\n<h2>What is Accessibility?<\/h2>\n<p>Accessibility means making content available and usable to a broad range of people. A common example of accessibility in practice is providing close captioning for videos, which provides an alternative way to access audio content for non-hearing or hearing impaired viewers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although the OLI Platform can provide much of what is needed to be compliant with government requirements for accessibility, there are issues that must be addressed when placing content into the OLI Platform.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alt tags on images must be used appropriately in all cases (guidelines on how to do this below)<\/li>\n<li>Videos must provide alternative access to audio. Make sure your videos\/walkthroughs are closed captioned or use the alternate version tag to provide an image and text alternative (which looks much like a script). For an example of an alternate to a walkthrough, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/webui\/guest\/join.do?section=statics\">Engineering Statics course<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Writing Alt Text<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/alttext\/\" title=\"WebAIM\" target=\"_blank\">WebAIM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawds.org\/show.php?contentid=28\" title=\"Guild of Accessible Web Designers\" target=\"_blank\">Guild of Accessible Web Designers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Creating Long Descriptions<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/images\/longdes1c\" title=\"WebAIM\" target=\"_blank\">WebAIM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/accessit\/articles?1258\" title=\"Access IT\" target=\"_blank\">Access IT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wac.osu.edu\/tutorials\/bestpractices\/calvin-writing.htm\" title=\"An example of a Long Description\" target=\"_blank\">An example of a Long Description<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Captioning vs. Transcripts<\/h2>\n<p>From HHS.gov:<\/p>\n<p>Section 508 requires an equivalent experience for all users. Users should be able to follow the dialog and action in a multimedia file as it occurs. Captions\u2014whether open or closed\u2014must be timed to coincide with those events as they occur. (Such timing is not possible with standalone transcripts.) Where multimedia files are visual only and do not contain sound, such as in scientific models, users should be provided with an appropriate description to understand what is occurring.<\/p>\n<p>And from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.access-board.gov\/sec508\/guide\/1194.22.htm#%28b%29\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Access Board\">Access Board<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>(b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.<br \/>\nWhat are considered equivalent alternatives?<\/p>\n<p>Captioning for the audio portion and audio description of visual information of multimedia presentations are considered equivalent alternatives. This provision requires that when an audio portion of a multimedia production is captioned, as required in provision (a), the captioning must be synchronized with the audio. Synchronized captioning would be required so someone reading the captions could also watch the speaker and associate relevant body language with the speech.<br \/>\nIf a website offers audio files with no video, do they have to be captioned?<\/p>\n<p>No, because it is not multimedia. However, since audio is a non-text element, a text equivalent, such as a transcript, must be available. Similarly, a (silent) web slide show presentation does not need to have an audio description accompanying it, but does require text alternatives to be associated with the graphics.<br \/>\nIf a Federal agency official delivers a live audio and video webcast speech, does it need to be captioned?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this would qualify as a multimedia presentation and would require the speech to be captioned.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/media\/scottcaptions.ram\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"National Endowment for the Humanities\">National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/main.wgbh.org\/wgbh\/access\/dvs\/lion.ram\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)\">National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is Accessibility? Accessibility means making content available and usable to a broad range of people. 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