The Video, Audio, and Animation Accessibility course is designed to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to create accessible and inclusive multimedia experiences by ensuring that videos, audio files, and animations are accessible to individuals with disabilities. In this course, participants will learn the techniques, best practices, and tools necessary to ensure that multimedia content can be accessed and understood by all users, regardless of their abilities or assistive technology usage.
Objectives:
- Understanding Multimedia Accessibility: Gain an understanding of the importance of multimedia accessibility, its impact on users with disabilities, and the benefits of creating inclusive video, audio, and animation content.
- Accessibility Laws and Standards: Familiarize yourself with accessibility laws and guidelines, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and learn how they apply to multimedia content.
- Captions and Subtitles: Learn techniques for creating accurate and synchronized captions and subtitles for videos, ensuring that individuals with hearing impairments can understand the spoken content.
- Audio Descriptions: Understand the importance of providing audio descriptions for visual elements within videos and animations, allowing users with visual impairments to comprehend the visual content.
- Transcripts: Master the art of creating comprehensive transcripts for audio files and podcasts, enabling users with hearing impairments to access the content through alternative means.
- Media Alternative Formats: Explore techniques for providing alternative formats of multimedia content, such as providing audio descriptions as separate audio files or offering transcripts in different formats.
- Animation Accessibility: Learn how to create accessible animations by considering aspects such as timing, motion, and avoiding flashing or distracting elements that could cause seizures or cognitive difficulties.
- Continued Accessibility Maintenance: Learn how to establish processes for ongoing multimedia accessibility evaluation, maintenance, and improvement, ensuring compliance with evolving accessibility standards.
Who Should Attend:
This course is suitable for multimedia content creators, video producers, web designers, developers, content creators, educators, and anyone involved in creating and presenting video, audio, and animation content. Whether you are new to multimedia accessibility or seeking to enhance your existing knowledge, this course provides essential skills to make your multimedia content inclusive and accessible.
Join us in this course and unlock the power of accessible multimedia design to provide an inclusive experience for all users, ensuring equal access to video, audio, and animation content. Enroll today and contribute to a more inclusive digital environment here at UVA.
Accessibility Statement:
The Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights would like to make this an inclusive and accessible experience for everyone. Should anyone require disability-related accommodations to participate in this training, please send any requests to [email protected] as early as possible, but no later than the Monday prior at noon (12pm), so that we have time to arrange for the necessary accommodations.
Note: To allow for time to put the disability-related accommodation in place, we recommend including a date that is at least 5 business days prior to the event.