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- Review UMass materials on Universal Design and Accessibility:
- Become familiar with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines. These guidelines are broken out into three categories: Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression. Incorporating UDL into your course will improve the experience for people with permanent disabilities, people learning English as a second language, people encountering temporary disabilities and, generally, all of your students who may be encountering uncertain situational environments at this time (e.g., cognitive overload, mental and emotional exhaustion, internet connectivity issues, etc.).
- If a student requests an accommodation, make your materials available as soon as possible to Disability Services. Accessible textbooks, videos, etc. can take several weeks to go through the accommodation process. These accommodations are essential for students with disabilities to succeed.
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- Captions are text representations of audio happening in video media. Captions are different from subtitles; captions are in the same language as the original media, subtitles are a translation of the original media’s language into another language. They can take the form of Open Captions (OC) which are always on, and Closed Captions (CC) which can be turned on and off by a user. Unlike transcripts, captions provide text on a screen synchronously with the audio. Captions should follow ADA guidelines to be 99% accurate and be available as soon as the video is available to any students. If you have the ability, captions should be added to the bottom of the screen, and be high-contrast or on a background to make them visible. Caption locations can be adjusted to make sure they do not cover important content on the screen. Note: A transcript of dialogue provided for video content does NOT meet accessibility guidelines. Professional captioning can be very expensive. See options for Automatic Speech Recognition:
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