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 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 The Potential for AI in Audiovisual Archives | Sound & Vision
Jenna Allen. “Text Mining: Every Line from The Office” July 31, 2018 Text Mining: Every Line from The Office
Rush, S. (Ed.). (2018, November 9). The Business Case for Digital Accessibility. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. The Business Case for Digital Accessibility
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: White Papers & Industry Studies (requires provide email)
Court Cases
NAD v Harvard/MIT Inside Higher Education Article: MIT and Harvard fail to get out of 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 Texas Administrative Code
TAC 213.30 Texas Administrative Code
TAC 213.32 Texas Administrative Code
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: 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 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)
Atom text editor with two special packages
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:
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/
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