Multimedia accessibility requirements

I had a great meeting with Heather Ault (hault2@illinois.edu) from OCE during one of the FSI-2011 Discovery labs. We discussed some of the best practices when incorporating multimedia into your online lessons

Multimedia requirements

(steps 1-5 are for images only)

1.     copyright permissions

2.     source of where the image came from

3.     if no copyright or origin/source can be obtained or determined then you will have to find alternatives

4.     write the ALT tags (the detailed description of the figure, graph, picture) in moodle between <>

5.     Descriptive title

6.     Transcript

7.     Audio file

Best practice – write the transcript as a script (avoids adding uhm, you knows to transcript - which would otherwise be "written" by a machine)

Compelling audio

• While recording stand up rather than sit down.
• Use gestures (even if they are not seen on the audio ;-)  ).
• Maybe make it an interview or dialogue - so that the spoken word will be less forced.