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1 Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community

2 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

3 Tools: Captioning Amara Caption and translate YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5. Syncs with YouTube accounts. dotSub Caption and translate any digital video format

4 Learn more about Amara

5 Tools: Described Audio YouDescribe A project of the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center. Add extended audio description to YouTube videos.

6 Learn More About YouDescribe

7 Tools: Image Description POET An open source image description tool from Benetech’s DIAGRAM center. Works with DAISY files. EPUB3 coming soon!

8 Learn More about POET

9 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.”

10 Connections to the Curriculum Service Learning Extra Credit Student Engagement Accessibility impacts (and can inspire) all areas of the curriculum

11 Models Beyond the Curriculum Accessibility Hackathons Knowbility’s OpenAIRKnowbility’s OpenAIR RNIB’s Accessibility HackathonRNIB’s Accessibility Hackathon Accessibility Charettes Accessible Trails re: Streets

12 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

13 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

14 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

15 Learn More Bigham, J.P. & Ladner, R.E. (2011). What the disability community can tell us about interactive crowdsourcing. interactions 18(4), 78- 81. Kremer, K. (n.d.) Facilitating accessibility through crowdsourcing. http://karenkremer.com/kremercrowdsourcingaccessibility.pdf http://karenkremer.com/kremercrowdsourcingaccessibility.pdf Pearson, R. (2012, 8 Nov). “Crowdsourcing the components of accessibility.” AccessIQ. http://www.accessiq.org/news/commentary/2012/11/crowdsourci ng-the-components-of-accessibility http://www.accessiq.org/news/commentary/2012/11/crowdsourci ng-the-components-of-accessibility

16 Contact Us Candida Darling Director, Disability Resource Center candida.darling@slcc.edu 801-957-4659 Melissa Helquist Associate Professor, English melissa.helquist@slcc.edu 801-957-4713


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