[Athen] Blackboard Ally and captioning

[Sheryl E. Burgstahler]

In a perfect world students with disabilities would not need to self-identify in an online course because the course would be designed to be accessible to them.

We are required to provide accessible courses in a timely manner. It is difficult/impossible to do this in a course that uses a lot of multimedia if we don’t invest in some proactive work. As far as captioning I think it is reasonable to make sure that videos that will be used more than once in courses be proactively captioned. That and other accessibility efforts will at least reduce the need to provide accommodations for students with documented disabilities.

Sheryl
  
On May 22, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Pamela Riesmeyer <pjries at gmail.com> wrote:


> I'm sorry, is that the current understanding, that course content that is not public doesn't need to be accessible? 

> Would someone be able to please point me to the documentation? I am going to get questions about this, and will need something to show. My understanding was that if it was online, no matter where, content needed to meet the compliance standards for accessibility.

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> Thanks,

> Pam Riesmeyer

> Purdue University Northwest

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> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Joseph Sherman <Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu> wrote:

> Looking for thoughts: Given the current understanding that course content that is not public doesn’t need to be accessible until an accommodation is requested, how are folks justifying large outlays of cash for things like universal captioning and Blackboard Ally? It’s got to be cheaper to rush caption and fix for accommodations than slow caption and fix everything when we have thousands of courses.

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> Ideally, I’d want and love for all content to be captioned and completely accessible from the start. But I can’t propose spending money we don’t have without a really good reason.

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