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Unfortunate to see this free content be lost. In the same line of thinking it is also sad that in this day and age there are not easy tools / systems to help t

by jimiz 10y ago

Unfortunate to see this free content be lost. In the same line of thinking it is also sad that in this day and age there are not easy tools / systems to help transcode and make content ADA approved. (At least cost effective)

vizeroth 10y ago
One of the things pointed out in the findings is that Berkeley makes people/tools/systems readily available to the people producing these resources, but does not require them to be used. Generally, the costs may be prohibitive after the fact if the people producing the material did not take them into consideration. However, they can usually be factored into the costs of production up front, and steps can be taken to make it easier to make the material accessible. In most cases, it is probably simply a lack of awareness on the part of the people making the material available. The difficult part is educating the faculty and staff of the University about the legal requirements they must meet and the resources available to them to make compliance easier, and, perhaps more importantly, an integral part of the process.
- extra88 10y ago
  Yes, Berkeley has quite a few resources available, more than most schools. It's probably because of a settlement in a separate case about not serving the needs of their enrolled students. The costs may be prohibitive to an instructor or their academic department but they shouldn't be for the institution as a whole. Not cheap, but not prohibitive.
SwellJoe 10y ago
Not really directly relevant to this, but YouTube makes captioning videos as painless as I can possibly imagine it being, and provides incredible automated and manual tools for doing so. I caption all of my videos on YouTube because it's the right thing to do, and I would do it even if it were more painful than it is, but I specifically use YouTube for everything because they make it so easy to add good captions (they also allow you to download the captions which can be converted to other formats and such). I don't know what kind of tools UCB could make available on their videos...but, the technology exists to community source the video captioning.

by jimiz 10y ago

vizeroth 10y ago

One of the things pointed out in the findings is that Berkeley makes people/tools/systems readily available to the people producing these resources, but does not require them to be used. Generally, the costs may be prohibitive after the fact if the people producing the material did not take them into consideration. However, they can usually be factored into the costs of production up front, and steps can be taken to make it easier to make the material accessible. In most cases, it is probably simply a lack of awareness on the part of the people making the material available. The difficult part is educating the faculty and staff of the University about the legal requirements they must meet and the resources available to them to make compliance easier, and, perhaps more importantly, an integral part of the process.

extra88 10y ago
Yes, Berkeley has quite a few resources available, more than most schools. It's probably because of a settlement in a separate case about not serving the needs of their enrolled students. The costs may be prohibitive to an instructor or their academic department but they shouldn't be for the institution as a whole. Not cheap, but not prohibitive.

SwellJoe 10y ago

Not really directly relevant to this, but YouTube makes captioning videos as painless as I can possibly imagine it being, and provides incredible automated and manual tools for doing so. I caption all of my videos on YouTube because it's the right thing to do, and I would do it even if it were more painful than it is, but I specifically use YouTube for everything because they make it so easy to add good captions (they also allow you to download the captions which can be converted to other formats and such). I don't know what kind of tools UCB could make available on their videos...but, the technology exists to community source the video captioning.