Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging the Campus Community

Crowdsourced Accessibility: Engaging

the Campus Community

Crowdsourcing Accessibility

We believe there is much to learn from [the experiences of people with disabilities] that can be either directly applied or adopted into new mainstream crowdsourcing systems.

--Bigham & Ladner, 2011

Tools: Captioning

AmaraCaption and translate YouTube, Vimeo, and HTML5. Syncs with YouTube accounts.

dotSubCaption and

translate any digital video format

Learn more about Amara

Tools: Described Audio

YouDescribeA project of the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center. Add extended audio description to YouTube videos.

Learn More About YouDescribe

Tools: Image Description

POETAn open source image description tool from Benetech’s DIAGRAM center. Works with DAISY files. EPUB3 coming soon!

Learn More about POET

Engaging the Campus Community

• Through crowdsourcing, accessibility shifts from the purview of one office to the entire campus community

• As awareness increases across campus, we hope that more media will be “born accessible.”

Connections to the Curriculum

• Service Learning• Extra Credit• Student

Engagement• Accessibility

impacts (and can inspire) all areas of the curriculum

Models Beyond the Curriculum

• Accessibility Hackathons• Knowbility’s OpenAIR• RNIB’s Accessibility Hackathon

• Accessibility Charettes• Accessible Trails• re: Streets

Universal Access Committee

• Key decision makers from across campus• Encourages cross-college collaboration to

ensure all programs, services, facilities, and technologies are universally accessible to people with disabilities

• Shared responsibility for accessibility • Promotes principles of universal design

on a system-wide level

Administrative Challenges to Crowdsourcing

• Over 60,000 students• 10 campuses in the metropolitan area• Adjunct faculty• Increase in Hybrid or Flipped classes

• 352 sections identified last semester

• Compatibility with digital repositories• Equella & Kaltura

Pros & Cons: DIY Captioning

• 50 videos free• Student workers

and other employees can help add captions

• Faculty can add captions to their own videos

• Raises awareness of Universal Design

• Funding for a system-wide approach

• Administrative burden

• Faculty perceptions • Software

compatibility • Quality control

Learn More

• Bigham, J.P. & Ladner, R.E. (2011). What the disability community can tell us about interactive crowdsourcing. interactions 18(4), 78-81.

• Kremer, K. (n.d.) Facilitating accessibility through crowdsourcing. http://karenkremer.com/kremercrowdsourcingaccessibility.pdf

• Pearson, R. (2012, 8 Nov). “Crowdsourcing the components of accessibility.” AccessIQ. http://www.accessiq.org/news/commentary/2012/11/crowdsourcing-the-components-of-accessibility

Contact Us

Candida Darling

Director, Disability Resource Centercandida.darling@slcc.edu801-957-4659

Melissa Helquist

Associate Professor, Englishmelissa.helquist@slcc.edu801-957-4713