On the web, increasingly, multimedia is being used to disseminate information. While it provides unique opportunities to reach many people it can pose problems for people with sensory and physical disabilities. Multimedia synchronized with captions and descriptive video can be a challenge to produce. This course will focus on captioning of digital media, which is a necessary to insure the accessibility for people with hearing impairments. Multimedia developers, information technologists, instructional technologists, staff for disablity services, librarians etc could benifit from taking the course.(The course is optional for the EASI/USM certificate.)
The technology is in constant flux, with services, tools and features being added to make this process easier. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of captions and the captioning process so that the participants can have sufficient knowledge to be able to use new environments and features.
The course will be give an overview of media players and multimedia formats (QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Real, Flash, Mp4), issues with accessibilty, current laws governing accessibility of multimedia, examine tools to create snychronized captions and to deliver captioned multimedia content on the web.
The course requires captioning and authoring tools to do the assignments. While effort has been made to demonstrate open source/free tools it is not always possible. Beside Quicktime Pro ($29) most commercial tools offer trail versions for 15-30 days.
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