All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'accessibility'
Still images advice tagged 'accessibility'
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
This advice document looks at the process of converting printed type into a computer readable format. In the 1950s the first commercial optical character recognition (OCR) applications appeared, however it wasn't until the early 1990s that 'off the shelf' products were made available. This document looks at the OCR process and how the condition of the original document and the capture technique can affect the quality of the digital output.
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Moving images advice tagged 'accessibility'
Planning Your Video Production 2 - Define and analyse your production
This is the second part of a five part advice document that provides background information on video pre-production.
The five parts are:
1. Introduction to planning
2. Define and analyse your production
3. Activities and dependencies
4. Estimates and schedules
5. Analyse risk and evaluateAlthough these advice documents may be useful if you are involved in filming a single activity (e.g. a lecture or interview), they are primarily aimed at those developing more complex projects. For basic guides to filming, please follow the links to related advice on the right.
Read full advice document...Adding Sign Language to a Video
When producing educational video for use on the web it is important to communicate clearly with your target audience. If your material is to be of use to the deaf community or viewers with hearing difficulties, there are a number of options: add subtitles or closed captions or an overlaid sign language interpreter who interprets spoken information in visual form. British Sign Language is the first language of over 70,000 people in the UK but many other sign languages exist internationally. This advice document looks at the practical aspects of adding a sign language interpreter to video delivered via the web.
Read full advice document...Adding Closed Captions to Flash Videos
Providing a textual representation of the audio content of a video program can be time consuming, but for some users it can prove to be invaluable. Not only does captioning help meet W3C requirement by facilitating access for people who have hearing impairments, it also helps: users who have no audio playback hardware; mobile users who are sited in a quiet area (such as a library) and those without proper audio codecs installed on their machines. This short paper takes a practical look at how to add subtitles to a Flash video file for online delivery. This is only one method of many but is perhaps the most straightforward and quickest for beginners.
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Audio advice tagged 'accessibility'
User Guide to MP3
A guide to the creation, manipulation and use of audio flies in the popular MP3 format, including a close look at the many audio and metadata options which MP3 offers, and its use within teaching and learning.
Read full advice document...Creating an Audio Podcast
An introductory guide to recording an audio podcast on a computer with a microphone and free open-source software.
This advice document will help users with little or no experience of recording audio to record their voice onto their computer using free software and simple peripherals. It then covers basic processing and editing of their recording and mastering it to a final format - in this case MP3. Simple instructions are then given for delivering this recording as a podcast through an institution's VLE and for archiving projects.
Read full advice document...Choosing a Digital Audio File Format
The choice of file formats can often prove overwhelming for someone new to the world of digital audio. The aim of this document is to discuss some of the key factors that should be considered before choosing a format and suggest suitable file formats for specific applications.
Read full advice document...Audio via Blackboard
An overview of using Audio in Teaching and Learning, and an introductory guide to the facilities of Blackboard VLE for supporting audio-enriched content and communication.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'accessibility'
Burning audio CDs, video and slideshow DVDs - Mac OSX
Burning your photos or movie files to a disc sounds, on paper, like a relatively simple task, but can often turn out to be a confusing and time consuming one. Choosing the right file types and knowing which software to use is often never clear and instructions on the simplest method to create CDs and DVDs on the whole do not come pre-installed on a computer. With these things in mind, this document provides step-by-step guides and practical advice on how to create audio CDs and video DVDs using the simplest approaches on Macintosh machines (see also our guide for Windows).
Read full advice document...Burning audio CDs, video and slideshow DVDs - Windows
Burning your photos or movie files to a disc sounds, on paper, like a relatively simple task, but can often turn out to be a confusing and time consuming one. Choosing the right file types and knowing which software to use is often never clear and instructions on the simplest method to create CDs and DVDs on the whole do not come pre-installed on a computer. With these things in mind, this document provides step-by-step guides and practical advice on how to create audio CDs and video DVDs using the simplest approaches on Windows machines. (see also our guide for Mac OSX).
Read full advice document...Basic Guide to Accessibility
This paper looks at the issue of accessibility. The topic is introduced and defined and then the term 'reasonable adjustment' is explained. The advantages of digital media for accessibility are discussed, followed by sets of guidelines and a basic accessibility check that can be performed on existing documents.
Read full advice document...Graphical User Interface Design: Developing Usable and Accessible Collections
This paper looks at the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a digital collection. It takes a general view of facilitating effective access to a digital resource and then examines more closely the issues of usability and then accessibility. It is intended to be of use to collection managers wishing to grant access to a digital resource.
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Blog entries tagged 'accessibility'
“The most accessible player on the web”
The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has recently released a new media player which they claim meets the “highest level of accessibility”.
Read blog entry...New advice on accessibility issues for digital media
JISC Digital Media has published a new advice document titled Basic Guide to Accessibility.
Read blog entry...Sign of the times
We've created a new a step-by-step guide to adding a sign language interpreter to your videos.
Read blog entry...Find out more about fonts and typefaces
Our latest advice document is an Introduction to Fonts and Typefaces.
Read blog entry...New optical character recognition (OCR) document
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting printed text into a computer readable format.
Read blog entry...Access all areas
'Accessibility' applies to us all, all of the time. This is easy to say, but when we battle to watch a Flash movie online, only to find that we don't have the correct plug-in or the admin rights to install it, it really rings true.
Read blog entry...Hashtags and Tweets
Do you want to increase the amount of people that find and then follow your Tweets on Twittter?
Read blog entry...Voice recorders on the iPhone
First impressions of the Voice Memo function in the new v3.0 iPhone software and comparison with an equivalent existing utility.
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