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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
Tools: Described Audio
YouDescribeA project of the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center. Add extended audio description to YouTube videos.
Tools: Image Description
POETAn open source image description tool from Benetech’s DIAGRAM center. Works with DAISY files. EPUB3 coming soon!
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 [email protected]
Melissa Helquist
Associate Professor, [email protected]
