Art of Alt Curriculum: Lesson 3: Accessible Video and Audio
Overview of Lesson 3
Lesson 3 explains the important points to consider in the development of accessible video and audio. The sections give examples and offer hands-on practice in creating the pieces needed for accessible video and audio so that all users have the opportunity to learn from the information in audio clips and videos.
Sections
- 3.1 Defining accessible video and audio
- 3.2 Creating accessible video and audio
- 3.3 Relevant accessibility standards and guidelines
- 3.4 Evaluation approaches
- 3.5 Information for the Web developer
- 3.6 References and Resources
Accessibility from the User Perspective
This video clip is from an interview with a student who is hard-of-hearing. She describes her experience with an online class that used streaming video. Note: this is also an example of a captioned video.
Captioned Video Clip. 
Transcript of Video Clip
Caroline: Technology has a way of going past us. Without having - if it does not have, if we don't have the input into it, it can leave us behind, it can leave us in a worse situation than we started of with. And that is conceivable, possible with streaming video if they dont caption it.
A couple of years ago I wanted to take a defensive driving course and I thought I'll take it on the computer, because they have a couple of places that have them.
Well one of them I emailed to, asking them to make sure that there was no audio component that I'd have to worry about. And sure enough, the exam is given in audio. Streaming audio. And I said, well I'm sorry, I can't do that. I'm hard-of-hearing and I can not understand audio without captioning. Can you send me the transcript and I can do that. And they said no, I'm sorry, we really can't do that, but you can listen to it over and over again until you got it. < laughs >
No, I don't think so. Ao we need certainly to have input in that. I think we're in good shape, I think it's a good place for us to start but we need to ensure we have input.
