Review Video Content for Accessibility

Content Accessibility Testing page – Videos

The following videos have been selected to allow you to test your skills in identifying accessibility concerns. Your challenge is to review them and identify as many accessibility issues as you can. Unfortunately, the Wave tool cannot help you identify issues within these activities, so you’ll have to rely on your powers of observation.

Watch Feedback language in English – Giving positive feedback & negative feedback (4 mins) on YouTube

Video source: Woodward English. (2019, October 9). Feedback language in English – Giving positive feedback & negative feedback. YouTube.

Watch Delivering a bad presentation – spot the mistakes (5 mins) on YouTube

Video source: University of Bedfordshire (2012, January 6). Delivering a bad presentation – spot the mistakes. YouTube.

Watch What is Irony? Exploring Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal Irony (4 mins) on YouTube

Video source: Teaching Intentionally. (2021, September 19). What is irony? Exploring situational, dramatic, and verbal irony. YouTube.

Check your Accessibility Assessment – Video content

Check your Accessibility Assessment – Video content (Text version)

What errors did you identify in these videos upon visual inspection?

  1. Captions that do not match the audio
  2. Colour contrast of text on a coloured background
  3. Captions that overlay potentially important information
  4. Missing Captions and Transcripts

Check your Answers in footnote[1]

What strategies could you employ to improve upon videos that do not meet accessibility standards, if you’re adopting an OER but not ready to adapt the book?

  1. Post an alternate or supplemental video within your LMS
  2. Post just the chapter/page content within the LMS and update with an alternate video
  3. Look for other OER content to use for that particular topic

Check your Answers in footnote[2]

Activity source: Check your Accessibility Assessment – Video by Jen Booth is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

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Except where otherwise noted, review Review Video Content for Accessibility by Jen Booth is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 

    1. Correct. The Teaching Intentionally video has captions that do not, in any way, match the video.
    2. The second video has several elements (notably, the PowerPoint slides shown) that display terrible colour contrast with slides with a red background and black text.
    3. Correct. Captions on the Woodward English video overlay potential information on the slides (though it's not certain if this info is essential in this particular video).
    4. Correct, no captions or transcript are available for the University of Bedfordshire video.

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    1. While not as good as swapping the video, this could improve accessibility.
    2. This could work as long as it meets the requirements of the creative commons license applied to the OER.
    3. This could also work, if you are not able to update/edit the content even within your LMS.

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