We are celebrating Online Accessibility Awareness Week here at SCC, May 26-29. The Faculty Learning Community – Making Online Course Content Accessible – has put together daily tips!
Today’s Tip: Captioning Video Content
We’ve been reading lately about universities such as MIT and Harvard being sued for lack of video captioning. While captioning is absolutely necessary for those who are hard-of-hearing, captions are also incredibly helpful for English language learners. A recent study found that 80% of viewers that use captions are in fact not deaf or hard of hearing, but simply prefer captioned content. Closed captions can improve video comprehension for all viewers, and as we use more video content in our courses, captioning becomes more important. We are taking a proactive approach here at Shoreline, where faculty were surveyed this year about the types of video content they are using for learning activities. While faculty are welcome to provide their own video captioning, eLearning is here to help. Unlike many other colleges, we have set aside funds specifically for captioning instructional video content. Do you have videos that you use on a regular basis that need captioning? Contact Amy Rovner (arovner@shoreline.edu) or Stephanie Diemel (sdiemel@shoreline.edu).
If you did not complete a survey, you can do it now.
If you want to learn more, join us for our last Lunchtime Training Session on campus – next Friday, June 5. We will have pizza and snacks to fuel your brain!
5 Steps to Accessible Syllabi Training
Friday, JUNE 5 1:30-3:00pm, Room 2926
If you cannot attend this on campus training, you can view a recorded version of it from a webinar we did yesterday for the SBCTC Ignis Webinars.
Thank you for your support of this important effort for student success!
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