1. Mireia Ribera1, Toni Granollers2, Marina Salse1, Bruno Splendiani1,
Jordi Coiduras2, Xavier Carrera2, , Miquel Centelles1, Victor Gil1,
Marta Oliva2, Montserrat Sendín2, Roberto García2, Josep Mª Ribó2,
Rosa Mª Gil2, Afra Pascual2, Juan Manuel Gimeno2
(1)University of Barcelona - (2)University of Lleida,
ULD Conference 2013 – 13/02/2013

2.  LIS Department – University of Barcelona
(Spain)
 GRIHO Group – University of Lleida (Spain)
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3.  Background
 Issue
 Proposal
 Pilot study
 The Guide to Accessible Video
 Future work and Conclusions
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4. Increasing number of students that require
specific adaptation in higher education
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5. Increasing use of video format for teaching in
higher education
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6.  Digital video Accessibility: a general benefit
for everybody
 Every educational institution must ensure
access to the information for all students
(Universal Design and Accessibility in
teaching)
 Goal: Promote equal opportunities / full
integration into university academic life
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7.  Teachers create videos without following:
 accessibility guidelines
 accessible models
 Students cannot access the contents
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8.  When teachers
 know guidelines to implement accessible
videos
 have accessible models
 Students can access the contents
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9.  To collect and apply a set of accessibility
criteria to video editing
 To create and disseminate a collection of
guides on how to design and edit
accessible videos for teaching in higher
education
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10. Target audience
 Professors in higher education
 Broader audience
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11.  “The accessibility chain of audiovisual
contents on the Web” (Moreno et al., 2007)
 Three main principles:
 “The video must be accessible itself”
 “Once the web page includes the video, it must
still be accessible”
 “The interaction with the user must be
accessible”.
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12. Pilot study
A video was planned,
subtitled, audiodescribed and
published using accessible
technologies
The Guide
A set of 7 guides for the
creation of Accessible Video
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13.  The Pilot Study intends to:
 Give support to dissemination of the
activities of the project
 A video is used as a pilot for all the tools in
the project.
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14.  A short video focused on raising awareness
of accessibility in multimedia
 A PowerPoint presentation, to demonstrate
its conversion to an animated audiovisual
with integrated accessibility.
 An audio track with audio description of
the video and subtitle files
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15.  The Guide to the creation of Accessible Video
intends to:
 Give support to digital content editors
 Give step by step information on how to
create, edit and upload accessible videos
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16.  Popular tools and technologies (e.g. YouTube,
PowerPoint, Html…) during the development
and pilot study steps.
 Tools selected according to the objective to
address the proposal to a wide range of
stakeholders, especially education
professionals, technicians and teachers.
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17. A set of guides on how to:
1. Plan and prepare accessible videos
2. Create accessible subtitles
3. Create an audio description
4. Create an accessible player
5. Convert a slide presentation to a video
6. Use automatic speech recognition for creating the
initial script of a video
7. to create a SCORM package from a video resource
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18. How to plan and prepare accessible videos
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19. How to create accessible subtitles
Caption Tube, Universal Subtitles and VSync
(YouTube)
Subtitle Workshop (for Windows)
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20. How to create an audio description with
Capscribe (for Mac)
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21. How to create an accessible player with
 HTML5
 JW Player
 CCPlayer
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22. How to convert a slide presentation to a video
with Camtasia Studio
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23. How to use automatic speech recognition for
creating the initial script of the video
 Dragon Naturally Speaking
 Audacity
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24. How to create a SCORM package from
a video resource
 SCORM and IEEE LOM standards
 SCORM Editor: Reload
 Platforms: Moodle, Sakai, etc.
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25.  Translate the Guide to other languages
 Amplify the results to other countries
 Creation of video tutorials of the Guide
 Inclusion of User Centered Design approach
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26.  Technology transfer is one of the main
purposes of the project
 Accessibility is a need
 Specialists have the duty to make it easy
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27. http://www.videoaccessible.udl.cat
 Download Resources
 Pilot video
 Guides and
Pilot PowerPoint slides
(available soon)
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28.  MORENO, L.; MARTINEZ, P. AND RUIZ B. The
accessibility chain of video on the web. W3C Video on
the Web Workshop, San Jose, California and
Brussels, Belgium, December, 2007. Available in
URL:
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Accessi
bilityChainVideoWeb.pdf
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29. Thank you for your attention
Any question?
Bruno Splendiani
splendiani@ub.edu
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