Trends and Futures in Accessible Media in the Classroom: Access For All
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Trends and Futures in Accessible Media in the
Classroom: Access For All
National Center for Technology Innovation•
WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
June 28, 2009 NECC 2009
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WGBH’s Media Access Group
• The Caption Center (est. 1972)Captions television, home videos,
feature films, CD & DVD-ROM, streaming video
• Descriptive Video Service (est. 1990)Describes television, home videos,
feature films by inserting narrated descriptions
of key visual elements during pauses in dialogue
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Carl and Ruth Shapiro FamilyNational Center for Accessible
Mediaat WGBH
(NCAM - est. 1993)
Research and development facility • Federally funded research projects • National policy development (public/private) • Technical solutions and guidelines • Community outreach • Strategic Partnerships • R&D Projects • Standards and Specifications
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Access For All
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Access For All
Identifies accessible content through flexible, standardized approach
• Accessibility = Learning environment adjusts to needs of all learners
• Disability = Mismatch between learner needs and ed resources
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Access for All Standard: matching learner needs to
resourcesAccess for All serves:• Users with disabilities• Users with diverse learning approaches• Users with diverse hardware and software
• Users in disabling environments• Users with diverse cultural or linguistic requirements
• Anyone who diverges from the hypothetical norm
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Teachers able to find accessible resources
DEMONSTRATIONhttp://
tdstage.teachersdomain.org:8001/
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Access for All Standard:
Two components1. Accessibility metadata
• Describes and enables discovery of accessibility features of resources
2. User profile • Describes user’s personal needs and
preferences• Enables identification of matching
resources• With or without other personal profiles and
other resource metadata• Automatic caption/audio description display
or enable at resource
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Teachers’ Domain
• Most videos captioned- Users enable captions 20% of time- Computer labs with no speakers - Universal design!
• Increasing described videos and images
• Amended lesson plans in development
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Instant Impact
• Large user base - new features available to thousands of teachers
• Access icons seen by every user
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Access for All Standards:
Current Status
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Access for All
• IMS Global Learning Consortium and ISO/IEC (international standard)
• Deployment begun – Teachers’ Domain as most comprehensive digital library user
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Access for All: other users
• ANGEL Learning
• SAKAI
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Access for All: other users
• ATRC, University of Toronto– Web4All and TransformAble
• http://web4all.atrc.utoronto.ca/ – Inclusive Learning Exchange
• http://inclusivelearning.ca/tile/
• EU4ALL project - ISO Individualized Adaptability and Accessibility in e‐Learning, Education and Training and W3C device profiles standards.– http://www.eu4all‐project.eu/
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Promote use of Access for All
• Educational publishers• Digital libraries• School-wide resource libraries
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Developers / Publishers / Institutions
• Increased content accessibility• Increased efficiency for users
– one-time investment in metadata, profile changes and algorithms
• Small amounts of metadata yield big benefits
• Increased promotion of existing accessible content
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Benefits of Access For All
• Avoids stereotypes and assumptions
• Avoids labeling or classifying users
• Avoids collection of private information
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More information•IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications– http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility
•Specifications for Accessible Learning Technologies (NCAM SALT site):– http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/
•ISO / IEC work – http://tinyurl.com/isoiec
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Contact InformationThe Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family
National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM)
Bryan Gould: [email protected] Goldberg: [email protected]
One Guest StreetBoston, MA 02135617.300.3400 (voice/fax)ncam.wgbh.org