5 Provide Closed-captioning, Transcripts, and Descriptions of Images/Charts

Having materials in accessible formats means that any student can read, listen or use them even those who use assistive technology such as screenreaders, which is crucial to learning. However, r equests for course materials in alternative formats, such as alternative media, descriptive video, enlarged materials and close-captioned videos, is one of the common accommodations showing that there is still much work to be done.

Add captions to recordings by using auto-captioning functions of Microsoft Stream or YouTube. Learn more in Youtube’s guide on Edit or Remove Captions and Microsoft Stream Automatically Creates Closed Captions for Videos.

All students and faculty have access to Microsoft Stream with their @my.centennialcollege.ca email and password. Watch the following video to learn how to use Microsoft Stream to upload and caption your video.

Did you know? While automatic captioning can be a powerful time-saving tool, machine-generated captions are not always perfect. Keeping videos short, using a good-quality microphone, minimizing background noises, and speaking slowly and clearly help to create more accurate captions. You may find Creating Instructional Videos helpful. At Centennial, faculty can access SubPly, a captioning service, to create caption or transcript files for recordings when automatic captioning does not work for them. Learn how to upload your video to SubPly to obtain captions/transcripts from Acquiring Video Transcripts/Captions Using SubPly.

Screen reader reads the text on the screen. Screen reader users often use keyboards instead of a mouse to navigate around their computer

All required or supplemental academic text for a course needs to be accessible to users with a wide range of abilities. Alternative Media includes print and technology-based solutions that are designed and/or converted to meet the needs of a variety of users.

Audio description, also commonly known as described video, is an additional narration track that describes what is happening on screen (usually between natural pauses in dialogue) to provide additional context.

Students require the text of all materials to be a minimum font size of 16+.