LESSON: 7 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Moodle Course More Accessible
This adaptive Lesson will provide you with background on accessibility, and seven concrete actions you can take now. There will be opportunities to test your knowledge as well.
7. Create transcripts and captions for multimedia
Even if you don't have a student with
hearing difficulties in your class, captions and transcripts can be quite helpful to
other students.
Students for whom English is not their primary
language, students with certain cognitive challenges, and students
watching your videos in noisy environments can all benefit by the
addition of captioning.
For audio-only content, such a podcast, provide a transcript.
For
audio and visual content, such as training videos, also provide
captions. Include in the transcripts and captions the spoken information
and sounds that are important for understanding the content, for
example, ‘door creaks’. For video transcripts, also include a
description of the important visual content, for example ‘Athan leaves
the room’.
Some video services such as YouTube offer
mechanical captioning using speech to text technology. If you have a
strong accent, if there are multiple people in the video, or if you are
in a field where use of terms not commonly found in everyday
conversation is common you will need to review the captions and make
corrections.
How to Edit Captions in YouTube (links to "Improving Accessibility" Moodle space)
One alternative to editing captions is to use scripts when recording presentations. Scripts can then be provided as transcripts available to all students.