Accessible A/V Resources
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
Randi Cecchine. The Potential For Ai In Audiovisual Archives
Jenna Allen. “Text Mining: Every Line from The Office” July 31, 2018
Rush, S. (Ed.). (2018, November 9). The Business Case for Digital Accessibility. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
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.
Federal Laws and Regulations
Whitepapers by 3PlayMedia (service provider) on Various Federal Laws: (requires provide email)
Court Cases
NAD v Harvard/MIT Inside Higher Education Article:
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
TAC 213.30
TAC 213.32
Tangential Laws and Regulations
TX-RAMP
Overview of Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust:
WCAG
WCAG A/V Primer:
Audio described silent clip:
Extended Audio Description Example: Warning contains video footage from the Branch Davidian Compound Raid, Fire, and Protest.
Remediation
VTTs for expressing time-based metadata (non-normative)
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.
Service Providers
List of captioning providers from DCMP (Described Captioned Media Program)
Service Provider Closed Caption Creator’s AD plugin can help write scripts and create quick exports for triaging AD requests.
AblePlayer Media supports text-based AD content using text-to-speech (some browsers).
YouDescribe: Web-based tool for requesting/creating Audio Described versions of YouTube content:
Cheat Sheets/Guidelines
Captioning Key (style guide)-
Case Studies in Accessible AV
University of Houston
Tools used by UH student project
Video playback (free and easy to download)
Atom text editor with two special packages
Presentation and Projects
UH TCDL 2021 presentation: "Metadata Works from Home" presented at TCDL 2021 ]
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:
our community partner, GCAM:
and Houston LGBTQ radio history: ,
Tools/service providers used:
Repositories
UH's AV Repository:
UT Digital Collections Portal: https://collections.lib.utexas.edu
Human Rights Documentation Initiative:
TCDL BoaF Session
Webinars-
Survey-
Inspiration survey- Waugh, Laura; Lyon, Colleen; Shelton, Abigail; Park, Kristi; Hicks, William; Lindsey, Nerissa, 2020, "Accessibility in Institutional Repositories Survey 2019", , Texas Data Repository, V1