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10.5334/bal.e

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Guidance for captioning rich media: Institutional approaches to supporting disabled learners

Advance HE eBooks (2021)

Alistair McNaught Piers Wilkinson Michael Wald Ben Watson Nik Duncan

This guidance does not represent legal advice but a summary of likely best practices achievable with current technologies, resources and workflows. This guidance is endorsed by the Digital Accessibility Working Group | December 2020. We recognise that digital accessibility crosses different areas of expertise so all the terminology will not be familiar to everyone. Please note we have provided a glossary in the appendix. Also note that while the guidance refers to lecture capture as an example throughout, the actions and principles can be applied across any rich media.

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Closed captioning

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Best practice

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OASES: Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service – A Web-Based Tool for Education Institutions to Self-Assess the Accessibility of Their Practice

Lecture notes in computer science (2010)

Simon Ball Alistair McNaught Sue Watson Andrew Chandler

Institution

Benchmark (surveying)

10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_69

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eBooks, Accessibility and the Catalysts for Culture Change

Lecture notes in computer science (2014)

E.A. Draffan Alistair McNaught Abi James

Electronic publishing

Electronic product

10.1007/978-3-319-08599-9_80

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The power of accessible knowledge: Universities, suppliers, and transparency in the information age

Elsevier eBooks (2020)

Alistair McNaught H. Richard Alexander

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10.1016/b978-0-12-822144-0.00005-7

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Evaluating e-book platforms: Lessons from the e-book accessibility audit

Learned Publishing (2018)

Alistair McNaught Ruth MacMullen Sue Smith Vicky Dobson

E‐books are a potential assistive technology, offering significant advantages over print books, and accessible materials are now a financial and legal necessity within UK academia. It is often difficult to find supplier information on accessibility, for example, whether files have been tagged for reading order or whether the interface has been tested with assistive technologies. Equally, library staff may lack confidence in identifying accessibility features, making it hard to promote them to students or demand them from suppliers. This article reports on a crowdsourced e‐book audit of 44 e‐book platforms that was undertaken by 33 UK universities during 2016. The research scored different platforms for a range of accessibility issues, and the resulting open data set is presented in a manner that can be interrogated by libraries looking for specific features. A key finding was that the platform can dramatically affect the accessibility of a publisher's content, making it important for publishers to work with suitable vendors to disseminate their publications.

Interface (matter)

10.1002/leap.1143

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