Online video has changed the landscape of education and corporate e-learning. For many educators and students, online video has become an important tool for teaching and learning. This change brings legal and ethical pressures to make video accessible for people with hearing disabilities. IT and Multimedia departments in many organizations and universities are faced with the many challenges of implementing accessible video for their institutions. Watch this webinar to learn about the efficient and cost-effective ways to meet these challenges. Speakers from the University of Florida and Regis University share their best practices and give advice to organizations who intend to have more accessible video for teaching and learning. The webinar covers the following topics: - Considerations for hosting, managing, and publishing accessible video - Strategies for accommodating special needs students - Impact of federal and state accessibility laws Presenters: Nicole Croy eLearning Technologist | Regis University Jason Neely Office of Distance Learning | University of Florida Josh Miller Co-Founder | 3Play Media Luda Ruditsky Director of Product Management | Kaltura Meytal Burstein Marketing Manager | Kaltura

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Video Accessibility:
Best Practices for Teaching and Learning
May 22, 2012

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Presenters
Nicole Croy
eLearning Technologist | Regis University
Jason Neely
Office of Distance Learning | University of Florida
Josh Miller
Co-Founder | 3Play Media
Luda Ruditsky
Director of Product Management | Kaltura
Meytal Burstein
Marketing Manager | Kaltura

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Agenda
Intro by 3Play Media
Intro by Kaltura
Presentation by Regis University
Presentation by University of Florida
Q&A
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This presentation is being recorded and will be available for replay

4. Automated Captioning Workflow
 Initiate captioning from Kaltura account
 Captions automatically sent back to Kaltura
 Turnaround as quick as 8 hours
 Monitor job status
 Ability to edit captions
Preload special terminology

5. Interactive Video Plugins

6. Few facts about Kaltura …
The Leading Open Source Video Platform
Flexible Framework For Building Robust Media Applications
Over 150,000 Publishers on SaaS and thousands of Self Hosted
30,000 developers in the community – Kaltura.org
Kaltura Exchange – The Only Video Solutions Marketplace
Integrated with all major LMSs
Dedicated applications to serve specific needs on campus
Available as Commercial and Open Source

7. Highlighted Education Customers

8. Kaltura Education Building Blocks

9. Partners Ecosystem – Education Market
Ingest
Lecture Capture
Manage
Transcoding
Distribute
CDNs
Publish
LMSs
Engage
Online Video Editing
editing
Video & PPT upload
Closed Captioning
Remote Learning
Social Sharing
Security & DRM
Google

10. 3PlayMedia –
Premium Kaltura Exchange partner

12. Enterprise-Level Online & Blended Courses
465 Course Online
Roughly 60% include Video
http://www.regis.edu/regis.asp?sctn=facst&p1=cpsdld

13. We feel we have a duty to make ALL
required course materials accessible
to ALL learners.

14. Resources for Captioning
Requirements & Techniques
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG 2.0)
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#mediaequiv
Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAim)
http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/

15. “an equivalent experience
for all users.”

16. “All multimedia files have synchronized captions and/or
provide transcripts for media.”
All required video is
closed-captioned

18. Original Captioning Process
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3-4 Days
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6
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9

19. Voice  Text
Poor Accuracy
=
Manual Text
Clean-up

20. 3
2
1
8 hrs -2 Days
4

23. Video publishing and
accessibility
College of Education
University of Florida

24. Video Content
• Over 800 videos on Kaltura
• Over 100 of those are transcribed

26. Accessibility in courses…
• Most videos used in courses are transcribed
• Other accommodations are made as needed
– Ex: Recorded ASL interpreter

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Questions?
Type your questions in the window
Nicole Croy | Regis University
ncroy@regis.edu
Jason Neely | University of Florida
jkneely@coe.ufl.edu
Josh Miller | 3Play Media
josh@3playmedia.com
Luda Ruditsky | Kaltura
Luda.Ruditsky@kaltura.com