These resources are compiled by the Accessible A/V Steering Group.

Accessible AV examples

• Aviary example: https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1150/collection_resources/36630/transcript  

• OHMS example:https://nunncenter.net/ohms-spokedb/render.php?cachefile=1990oh285_leg019_ohm.xml

• Gernsbacher, M. A. (2015). Video Captions Benefit Everyone. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2(1), 195–202.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2372732215602130  

Benefits of Accessible AV

• Mary Ellen Dello Stritto and Katie Linder. A Rising Tide: How Closed Captions Can Benefit All Students https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/8/a-rising-tide-how-closed-captions-can-benefit-all-students  

• Randi Cecchine. The Potential For Ai In Audiovisual Archives https://beeldengeluid.nl/en/knowledge/blog/potential-ai-audiovisual-archives  

• Jenna Allen. “Text Mining: Every Line from The Office” July 31, 2018 https://www.jennadallen.com/post/text-analytics-every-line-from-the-office/

• Rush, S. (Ed.). (2018, November 9). The Business Case for Digital Accessibility. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. https://www.w3.org/WAI/business-case/  

Content Analysis

• Leland G. Spencer & Theresa A. Kulbaga (2018) Trigger warnings as respect for student boundaries in university classrooms, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 15:1, 106-122, DOI: 10.1080/15505170.2018.1438936

• Spina, C. (2021). Chapter 5. Other Considerations for Video Accessibility. Library Technology Reports, 57(3), 22-24. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2520094524

• Alfvén, M., & Creutz, A. (2021). Web Accessibility and Search Engine Optimization: an investigation on the implementation and its effect within e-commerce websites in Sweden. http://hj.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1566942&dswid=-2039  

Federal Laws and Regulations

• Whitepapers by 3PlayMedia (service provider) on Various Federal Laws: https://www.3playmedia.com/learn/white-papers/ (requires provide email)

Court Cases

• NAD v Harvard/MIT Inside Higher Education Article: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/08/mit-and-harvard-fail-get-out-video-captioning-court-case  

• NAD v Harvard Consent Decree: https://creeclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NAD-v-Harvard-Consent-Decree.pdf

Texas State Laws

• TAC 206.70 https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&ti=1&ch=206&rl=70

• TAC 213.30 https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac%24ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=1&pt=10&ch=213&rl=30

• TAC 213.32 https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=1&pt=10&ch=213&rl=32  

Tangential Laws and Regulations

• TX-RAMP https://dir.texas.gov/texas-risk-and-authorization-management-program-tx-ramp  

• Overview of Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._HathiTrust

WCAG

• WCAG A/V Primer: https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/

• Audio described silent clip: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1596944/m1/

• Extended Audio Description Example: Warning contains video footage from the Branch Davidian Compound Raid, Fire, and Protest. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1596945/m1/  

Remediation

• VTTs for expressing time-based metadata (non-normative) https://www.w3.org/wiki/VTT_Concepts#Metadata_Tracks  

• The Service Provider 3PlayMedia has an Audio Description “Plugin” that will do standard or extended descriptions and uses Javascript to Pause the playback for the browser. https://www.3playmedia.com/learn/how-to-guides/audio-description-how-to-guides/audio-description-examples/  

Service Providers

• List of captioning providers from DCMP (Described Captioned Media Program)https://dcmp.org/learn/10-captioning-service-vendors  

• Service Provider Closed Caption Creator’s AD plugin can help write scripts and create quick exports for triaging AD requests. https://www.closedcaptioncreator.com/lp/audio-description-software.html

• AblePlayer Media supports text-based AD content using text-to-speech (some browsers). https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/  

• YouDescribe: Web-based tool for requesting/creating Audio Described versions of YouTube content: https://youdescribe.org  

Cheat Sheets/Guidelines

• Captioning Service Provider Cheatsheet

• Captioning Internal Production Cheat Sheet

• Captioning Key (style guide)- https://dcmp.org/learn/captioningkey

Case Studies in Accessible AV

University of Houston

Tools used by UH student project

• Video playback (free and easy to download)

  • https://addons.videolan.org/p/1747780 

  • https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154032/

• Atom text editor with two special packages

  • https://atom.io/

  • https://atom.io/packages/vtt-helper

  • https://atom.io/packages/language-vtt  

Presentation and Projects

• UH TCDL 2021 presentation: "Metadata Works from Home" presented at TCDL 2021 https://youtu.be/iayM7ltoomg?t=620 ]

• UH NEH-funded digitization project in collaboration with Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender History

• More information about UH’s grant: https://libraries.uh.edu/about/news/uh-libraries-receives-neh-grant/  

• our community partner, GCAM: http://gcam.org/index.php

•  and Houston LGBTQ radio history: https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/index-radio.html , https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2017/09/after-after-hours/  

• Tools/service providers used:

  • https://www.3playmedia.com/  

  • https://otter.ai/  

Repositories

• UH's AV Repository: https://av.lib.uh.edu/  

• UT Digital Collections Portal: https://collections.lib.utexas.edu

• Human Rights Documentation Initiative: https://hrdi.lib.utexas.edu

TCDL BoaF Session

• Webinars- https://www.tdl.org/tdl-events/webinars-tdl/accessible-av-webinar-series/  

• Survey- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPIIgIJbjnSyOVhmu6kiQYbpaBWybD4EC3RE-TSgg2LlmbWw/viewform?usp=sf_link

• Inspiration survey- Waugh, Laura; Lyon, Colleen; Shelton, Abigail; Park, Kristi; Hicks, William; Lindsey, Nerissa, 2020, "Accessibility in Institutional Repositories Survey 2019", https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/LUGYPO , Texas Data Repository, V1