Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community
Crowdsourcing Accessibility We believe there is much to learn from [the experiences of people with disabilities] that can be either directly applied or adopted into new mainstream crowdsourcing systems. --Bigham & Ladner, 2011
Tools: Captioning Amara Caption and translate YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5. Syncs with YouTube accounts. dotSub Caption and translate any digital video format
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Tools: Described Audio YouDescribe A project of the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center. Add extended audio description to YouTube videos.
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Tools: Image Description POET An open source image description tool from Benetech’s DIAGRAM center. Works with DAISY files. EPUB3 coming soon!
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Engaging the Campus Community Through crowdsourcing, accessibility shifts from the purview of one office to the entire campus community As awareness increases across campus, we hope that more media will be “born accessible.”
Connections to the Curriculum Service Learning Extra Credit Student Engagement Accessibility impacts (and can inspire) all areas of the curriculum
Models Beyond the Curriculum Accessibility Hackathons Knowbility’s OpenAIRKnowbility’s OpenAIR RNIB’s Accessibility HackathonRNIB’s Accessibility Hackathon Accessibility Charettes Accessible Trails re: Streets
Universal Access Committee Key decision makers from across campus Encourages cross-college collaboration to ensure all programs, services, facilities, and technologies are universally accessible to people with disabilities Shared responsibility for accessibility Promotes principles of universal design on a system-wide level
Administrative Challenges to Crowdsourcing Over 60,000 students 10 campuses in the metropolitan area Adjunct faculty Increase in Hybrid or Flipped classes 352 sections identified last semester Compatibility with digital repositories Equella & Kaltura
Pros & Cons: DIY Captioning 50 videos free Student workers and other employees can help add captions Faculty can add captions to their own videos Raises awareness of Universal Design Funding for a system- wide approach Administrative burden Faculty perceptions Software compatibility Quality control
Learn More Bigham, J.P. & Ladner, R.E. (2011). What the disability community can tell us about interactive crowdsourcing. interactions 18(4), Kremer, K. (n.d.) Facilitating accessibility through crowdsourcing. Pearson, R. (2012, 8 Nov). “Crowdsourcing the components of accessibility.” AccessIQ. ng-the-components-of-accessibility ng-the-components-of-accessibility
Contact Us Candida Darling Director, Disability Resource Center Melissa Helquist Associate Professor, English