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
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I 100% agree. Just for clarity, by requester in my previous email, I meant a
person requesting accommodations for the video and not the original persons
pushing for the digital collection.
The fact is that accessibility remediation is a translation, and different
types of remediation can
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
Hello Code4Lib,
It's with great sadness that I have to relate that Safiya Noble has had to
withdraw from her Code4Lib 2019 keynote engagement for personal reasons.
Luckily, Dr. Noble suggested that her colleague Sarah Roberts take her
place as Dr. Roberts works on similar issues and the two have
Hello there,
Can I please be removed from all CODE4LIB emails for the time being?
Thank you,
Susannah Woodbury
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 6:30 PM Code4Lib Jobs wrote:
> The University of Montevallo, Alabama’s Public Liberal Arts College,
> invites applications for the 12-month, tenure-track
Yeah, it's the domain specific terms that really make or break these systems,
especially in academic settings. These might suffice for business domains, but
I've seen transcription quality drop quite fast for a STEM class or any
non-Western humanities course. Ideally, there would be a feedback
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