Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free Multimedia

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Robert Wyatt, Director of Distance Education
Leyla Zhuhadar, Instructional Designer, Western
Kentucky University

• Western Kentucky University Bowling Green
  Kentucky, enrollment about 18,000
• The Office of Distance Education (ODL) provides
  support for
• 200 faculty
• 400 online course offerings
• 10,000 enrollments per year

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
The Story How ODL efforts to assist faculty with
ADA 508 compliance in their online courses led to
development of multimedia manymedia and a
captioning system for online materials. Motto
Always an Opportunity to Learn

• Multimedia Not just audio and video
• Audio and video with annotations
• Audio and video
• Podcasts
• Vodcasts
• Powerpoint slides
• Transcripts
• Better than multimedia? Manymedia all
  generated from a single presentation by faculty
  member.

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Manymedia solution for students

• Full presentation
• Vodcast
• Podcast (not shown)
• Transcript
• Power point slides

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Full presentation

• Software called Tegrity
• Easy to use
• Natural Teaching method
• Creates Audio/Video/.ppt/annotations

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Full presentation

• Software called Tegrity. Features
• Slide and timing menu

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Full presentation

• Software called Tegrity. Features
• Slide Index

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Full presentation

• Software called Tegrity. Features
• Search (any word on the .ppt)

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Full presentation

• Software called Tegrity. Features
• Printable .ppt slides
• Much more

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning

• Many, many recorded lectures
• Need for captioning

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning

• Many, many recorded lectures
• Tegrity Captioningtool

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning

• Many, many recorded lectures
• Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning
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ltSLIDESgt   ltI T"0"gtWeek 1 Familiarize yourself
with Blackboard READ the Syllabus and course
policies Week 1 Virtual labs (Intro Pill bug)
Study for Quiz 1 (M-W) Repeat next weeklt/Igt   ltI
T"578487"gtWeek 1 Familiarize yourself with
Blackboard READ the Syllabus and course policies
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Quiz 1 (M-W) Repeat next weeklt/Igt   ltI
T"581562"gtWeek 1 Post questions to Forum Repeat
next week Good Luck, Study Hardlt/Igt   lt/SLIDESgt  

• Many, many recorded lectures
• Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine
• Allows Search for certain words

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning
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my classes agree critique new students into what
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• Many, many recorded lectures
• Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine
• Allows search for certain words
• Transcriptions not meant for reading.

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning

• Tried other speech recognition software (direct
  from Tegrity recording to Software)
• Requires training of software by user
• Too many users and not enough time
• Wanted to ease burden on faculty

• Many, many recorded lectures
• Tegrity Speech Transcription Engine
• Allows search for certain words
• Transcriptions not meant for reading.
• Other means

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning

• Along comes Pocasting
• Audio only recording WAS a podcast

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
ADA compliance - Captioning

• Along comes Pocasting
• Audio only recordings REALLY require captioning
• Audio is a good accessibility tool for some

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Summary Part 1 At the end of the journey,
accessible manymedia solution for students from
one presentation.

• Full presentation
• Where audio accompanies .ppt with screen
  annotations

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Summary Part 1 At the end of the journey,
accessible manymedia solution for students from
one presentation.

• Vodcast/Podcast
• Podcast From Audio only version of full
  presentation
• Vodcast from video portion of presentation
• Enhanced Vodcast (entire video .ppt)

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Summary Part 1 At the end of the journey,
accessible manymedia solution for students from
one presentation.

• Printable Power point slides
• Could be used with podcast.

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Summary Part 1 At the end of the journey,
accessible manymedia solution for students from
one presentation.

• Transcript
• Can be used with power point slides

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Summary Part 1 At the end of the journey,
accessible manymedia solution for students from
one presentation.

• Captioned Full presentation

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Robert Wyatt, Director of Distance Education
Leyla Zhuhadar, Instructional Designer, Western
Kentucky University
The Story How ODL efforts to assist faculty with
ADA 508 compliance in their online courses led to
development of manymedia and a captioning
system for online materials. Motto Always an
Opportunity to Learn By deconstructing and
captioning the Tegrity presentations we created a
large and diverse set of learning media for the
student that can be used in a variety of ways.
The Faculty only create one presentation. Leyla
Zhuhadar Doctoral student in Computer Science
at The University of Louisville and an
Instructional Designer for the Office of Distance
learning at WKU. She will talk about the
captioning system we built and how students use
the manymedia.
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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Building A Captioning System
Video files (different format)
Audio files
Browser files
Power point presentation files (thumbnails
images, slides images,)
Closed-captions file
search files
Downloadable files (PC, Mac)
help files
GUI files (Interface)
Deconstructing Tegrity Presentation
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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Building A Captioning System
ltROOTgt ltSYNC START"1000" END"15000"gtwelcome to
management 333 managing non profit organizations
my name is Linda Johnson and I will be your
instructor this semester for this course in the
year 2000 I left my very comfortable surroundings
on the hill at Western Kentucky
Universitylt/SYNCgt ltSYNC START"16000"
END"30000"gtto create a not for profit
organization called CITE the center for
technology enterprise located here Bowling Green,
Kentucky after three years this fall I of scaling
creating and scaling a multi million
dollarlt/SYNCgt .................. ltSYNC
START"226000" END"240000"gtcan be found in the
staff section of this course.lt/SYNCgt lt/ROOTgt

• Closed-captions file (An XML file)
• Using tagging format
• Splitting each session into 15 sec (Trial Error
  method)
• Synchronicity between the video/Audio and the
  transcript

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Building A Captioning System
ltROOTgt ltSYNC START"1000" END"15000"gtWelcome to
management 333 managing non profit organizations
my name is Linda Johnson and I will be your
instructor this semester for this course in the
year 2000 I left my very comfortable surroundings
on the hill at Western Kentucky Universitylt/SYNCgt
.................. ltSYNC START"226000"
END"240000"gt can be found in the staff section
of this course.lt/SYNCgt lt/ROOTgt
XML-file (closed-captions)
Tegrity lecture with closed-captions
Mapping XML-file (closed-captions with Tegrity
Lecture
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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Building A Captioning System

• Writing a Java program An automatic parser
  which generates the XML-file (closed-captions)
• As input 1)Transcript file
• 2)Duration of the lecture
  (hhmmss)
• 3)Increment steps (15
  second) As output XML-file

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Building A Captioning System

• Distance Learning Teamwork

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Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning
Barrier-Free Multimedia
Robert Wyatt, Director of Distance Education
Leyla Zhuhadar, Instructional Designer, Western
Kentucky University