7 Images, Audio, & Video

Media content should have alternative ways to access the content for those with disabilities. This includes providing a transcript for audio and video content, providing text descriptions of any visuals within a video, and providing text descriptions for any images that are conveying extra information not included in the surrounding text content.

Images

Images used to supplement content need to be described in text for visually impaired users. The length and detail of the description depend on the image. The OER lab staff will know the correct place to put the text description for images, all that needs to be provided to them is the text description for each image that requires one.

Audio

With media content such as podcasts or voice recordings, transcripts must be provided for deaf users to allow the content to be accessible.

Video

Video content is a bit more complicated. If the video contains sound, the video must provide captions and/or a transcript for deaf users. In addition, if the video contains any visuals that are conveying additional information (such as a graph), text descriptions of those visuals must be provided for visually impaired users. This is only needed if the visual within the video has not been described by voice or with captions.

If a video contains sound, but the sound isn’t important, inform the reader of this before the video content with something such as “This video is not captioned because the audio content is just background music”. This ensures hearing impaired users that they are not missing any audio content from the video.