Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Tim McGeary
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:45 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility
This is why defining the policy of access is critical. If these digitized
collections are intended to be publi
This is why defining the policy of access is critical. If these digitized
collections are intended to be published for the entire public, the needs
of the (original) requester is not sufficient; the federal mandates require
full accessibility as best to your ability without undue burden.
If you
While this is true in the general case, we're again talking about Special
Collections and the needs of the requester. Audio descriptions are extremely
difficult to do as the ideal is to never interrupt other relevant sounds in the
media, especially dialogue. That's a unique challenge of being
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Carol Kassel
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:42 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] A/V and accessibility
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for your replies! I'll reply to each of you individually as
well.
In answer to
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for your replies! I'll reply to each of you individually
as well.
In answer to your question about which auto-captioning solutions we're
looking at, there are 2 main solutions we have our eye on. One is VerbIt
and the other is Konch. Both appear to offer reasonable
UNT Digital Libraries and the Portal to Texas History are starting to test the
waters here too with a ton of content to catch up on. Early days.
Vendors: We've tested 3Play and then rev.com. At the latest Accessing Higher
Ground (AHG) conference, the latter was getting talked up a lot by ODA
