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Demonstration on Access for All standards and Teachers Domain.
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Trends and Futures in Accessible Media in the
Classroom: Access For All
National Center for Technology Innovation•
WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
June 28, 2009 NECC 2009
WGBH’s Media Access Group
• The Caption Center (est. 1972)Captions television, home videos,
feature films, CD & DVD-ROM, streaming video
• Descriptive Video Service (est. 1990)Describes television, home videos,
feature films by inserting narrated descriptions
of key visual elements during pauses in dialogue
Carl and Ruth Shapiro FamilyNational Center for Accessible
Mediaat WGBH
(NCAM - est. 1993)
Research and development facility • Federally funded research projects • National policy development (public/private) • Technical solutions and guidelines • Community outreach • Strategic Partnerships • R&D Projects • Standards and Specifications
Access For All
Access For All
Identifies accessible content through flexible, standardized approach
• Accessibility = Learning environment adjusts to needs of all learners
• Disability = Mismatch between learner needs and ed resources
Access for All Standard: matching learner needs to
resourcesAccess for All serves:• Users with disabilities• Users with diverse learning approaches• Users with diverse hardware and software
• Users in disabling environments• Users with diverse cultural or linguistic requirements
• Anyone who diverges from the hypothetical norm
Teachers able to find accessible resources
DEMONSTRATIONhttp://
tdstage.teachersdomain.org:8001/
Access for All Standard:
Two components1. Accessibility metadata
• Describes and enables discovery of accessibility features of resources
2. User profile • Describes user’s personal needs and
preferences• Enables identification of matching
resources• With or without other personal profiles and
other resource metadata• Automatic caption/audio description display
or enable at resource
Teachers’ Domain
• Most videos captioned- Users enable captions 20% of time- Computer labs with no speakers - Universal design!
• Increasing described videos and images
• Amended lesson plans in development
Instant Impact
• Large user base - new features available to thousands of teachers
• Access icons seen by every user
Access for All Standards:
Current Status
Access for All
• IMS Global Learning Consortium and ISO/IEC (international standard)
• Deployment begun – Teachers’ Domain as most comprehensive digital library user
Access for All: other users
• ANGEL Learning
• SAKAI
Access for All: other users
• ATRC, University of Toronto– Web4All and TransformAble
• http://web4all.atrc.utoronto.ca/ – Inclusive Learning Exchange
• http://inclusivelearning.ca/tile/
• EU4ALL project - ISO Individualized Adaptability and Accessibility in e‐Learning, Education and Training and W3C device profiles standards.– http://www.eu4all‐project.eu/
Promote use of Access for All
• Educational publishers• Digital libraries• School-wide resource libraries
Developers / Publishers / Institutions
• Increased content accessibility• Increased efficiency for users
– one-time investment in metadata, profile changes and algorithms
• Small amounts of metadata yield big benefits
• Increased promotion of existing accessible content
Benefits of Access For All
• Avoids stereotypes and assumptions
• Avoids labeling or classifying users
• Avoids collection of private information
More information•IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications– http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility
•Specifications for Accessible Learning Technologies (NCAM SALT site):– http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/
•ISO / IEC work – http://tinyurl.com/isoiec
Contact InformationThe Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family
National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM)
Bryan Gould: [email protected] Goldberg: [email protected]
One Guest StreetBoston, MA 02135617.300.3400 (voice/fax)ncam.wgbh.org