All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'accessibility'

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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Hashtags and Tweets

Do you want to increase the amount of people that find and then follow your Tweets on Twittter?
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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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