1. Creating Inclusive Materials
PACADA Retreat
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Session statement:
How do I create documents and videos that are usable by a diverse student population, including students with disabilities? This learning session will demonstrate simple techniques and provide resources for creating inclusive materials.
September 21, 2016
Dean Brusnighan, ITaP Teaching and Learning Technologies

2. Why is this important?
Ask the attendees

3. We will talk about Importance of captioning videos
Word and PDF – why and how to make documents usable by diverse students

4. Background Universal (inclusive) design
Don’t wait for a person with a disability to ask for an accommodation

5. Video Video Who benefits from captions? Options for captioning videos
Copyright concerns
Donna Ferullo, Purdue Copyright Office
Video showing the importance of captioning:
Who benefits?
English language learners
People with certain learning disabilities
Visual learners
Researchers reported in Journal of the American Medical Association (2010) that 1 in 5 adolescents have hearing loss
Anyone in these situations:
Environments that are loud or quiet
Captions are searchable so can find your video content through a search engine
Video with poor sound quality
Speaker with a heavy accent
Other benefits:
Show correct spelling of new terms, especially helpful in STEM courses
Videos with captions improve student comprehension, engagement, and performance. Retention and comprehension levels are more than doubled, research shows.
Videos with captions can be watched at an increased speed – 1.25 or 1.5 times the standard speed – with little or no loss of comprehension
Videos with captions are watched longer
Copyright concerns:
Adding captions to a video without permission of the copyright owner is not allowed by copyright law
Experts disagree

6. Options for captioning videos
Professional closed captioning by vendor
Captions requested through Kaltura
for department liaison
Kaltura automatic captions
Free, and require editing
Caution: YouTube automatic captions require editing
Harvard and MIT were sued in 2015 over missing or inaccurate captions on free educational content
Quote from the complaints: “Just as buildings without ramps bar people who use wheelchairs, online content without captions excludes individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.”
Captioning contracts
Cielo24 ($1.60/minute, 99% accuracy, 48 hours)
3Play Media ($2.10/min, 98+% accuracy, 4 business days)

7. MS Word Headings Images Lists Links Tables Accessibility Checker
Save as PDF

8. PDF Image only PDF Document properties to see if Tagged
Adobe Acrobat Pro not Adobe Reader
Accessibility Wizard
Demo of recognized PDF

9. Training Hands-on training session October 11 Training handouts
Training handouts
ning+Materials+Index
Creating Accessible Word Docs and PPT Slides
Creating Accessible PDFs

10. Resources Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
Portland Community College
support/access/

11. So Much to Do! So much to do.
1/27/2015
So Much to Do!
So much to do.
Don’t try to eat the elephant all at once!

12. Moving forward Make a collective decision to improve accessibility
Determine priorities
Set goals
Make progress
We’ve talked about a wide range of things. There’s a lot to do here – don’t try to eat the elephant all at once!
Make a decision that improving accessibility is important, and let folks internal and external know that
With input across staff and administrators, gather information so priorities can be determined
What is most critical that needs improvement?
Set realistic goals for timelines
Just start somewhere and make progress

13. Contact
Dean Brusnighan
Campus: