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In accordance with federal law, ALL INSTRUCTORS (as agents of the University) must ensure all classroom materials are available to students with disabilities at the same time as all other students. All videos and/or clips shown during the semester must be checked for ADA compliant closed captioning by you.
Know the difference
- Closed captions/Post production: CAN be toggled on and and off, created after a video is produced
- Ex: DVD’s, TV shows, lecture videos
- Live captions (CART/Typewell/C-Print): Captioning happens at the same time as speaking
- Used for “live” events
- Ex: Daily news, in a courtroom
- Subtitles: Designed for language translation, NOT for people with hearing loss
- Ex: Foreign films
- Open captions: CANNOT be toggled on/off
- Ex: burned into the video
- Auto Generated Captions or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Captions: captions created by a computer (artificial intelligence)
AMS prioritizes student materials
- Non-student related materials will be process on a first come, first serve basis
- Rates for non-student related materials can be found on the DRES Billing (Non-Student) page
- Contact Ann Fredricksen at dres-accessible-media@illinois.edu with questions
Captioning information for
Synchronous REMOTE Class Policy
Due to high demand of closed captioning services, DRES will be focusing its efforts on closed captioning asynchronous courses during remote instructions and any video shown in live sessions. For synchronous courses that are being recorded and posted for review/supplemental material, preference is being given to live captioning. Live captioning will also result in a transcript that can be synced to the recording by the professor after the live session is posted to MediaSpace.
If a student decides that they don’t require live captioning, but is unable to attend a class, they can request closed captioning for any session by filling out this form.
- Live-Synchronous Remote sessions that are recorded, need live captioning.
- If refused accommodation, then closed captioning happens for each request of the live session only.
- Asynchronous Remote sessions will get closed captioning.
Who Benefits From Captioning/Transcripts
- People whose native language isn’t the language of the video (international students)
- Some people with learning disabilities or other cognitive impairments
- All viewers as reading captions and hearing the audio stimulates different parts of the brain (multimodal learning).
- People in quiet environments where audio output is not allowed (i.e. libraries)
- People in noisy environments where audio is difficult to hear and understand or multiple TVs are playing (i.e. student unions or sports bars).
- People whose equipment does not support audio output or who simply do not have an audio output device available — headphones.
- People who are performing a deep search by looking for information contained in the transcript; search engines can find info in transcripts, but not in a video or audio file, who need to jump to specific locations in a video.
Additional Resources
- Select this Word document to learn how to turn captions on in Media Player, Real Player, and QuickTime
- Select this Word document for questions to ask a third party captioning company before purchasing services
- University of Illinois system affiliates, click here to check out Technology Services Media Space captioning resources
- List of video players known to be reasonably accessible:
- OzPlayer
- Brightcove Player
- AblePlayer
"How to Create" Manuals
- Transcripts
- Captioning/Formating STEM Content
- Described and Captioned Media Program Captioning Key
- Kaltura/Media Space
- CaptionMaker (Link coming soon)
- MovieCaptioner
- Camtasia (Use LinkedIn Learning Online Training Library® and Camtasia tutorials to learn how to caption in camtasia)
- Amara
- Youtube
- Upload video
- Create transcript
- YouTube will sync
- AMS Manual
- Captioning