Hi Amelia! I really appreciate your work. I work at a university writing center. One semester I had a deaf student whose teacher kept assigning podcasts but kept forgetting to provide a transcript. I was really annoyed on her behalf. I think there are lots of students who would benefit from having access to the transcript of a podcast they have to analyze. Thanks for sharing!
thank you for watching/listening. I know that teachers using podcasts for assigned readings are an important stakeholder in this– transcripts just need to be more of an expected, regular part of all podcast productions!
ameliachesley
1 year ago
Adam! thank you for explaining all of this so well and so interestingly. I was kind of familiar with .svg files previously but this was a whole added level of understanding. it’s so eye-opening to hear about the possibilities for using this coded image file format to create accessible data visualizations. are there tutorials or forthcoming workshops on how to learn and teach the tools and skills to work with .svg files in this way?
Hi Amelia! I can say I went into a bit further detail in my proceedings on how to actually implement these. Would love to submit a tutorial on it to something like Kairos since the actual guides out there from W3 and such are pretty dense. The other issue is that screen readers are not always consistent in their reading of code. Multiple issues, but I think tackling this is a way to start making big, complex data visualizations more accessible to more people instead of just trying to present the data in another way.
Hi Amelia! I really appreciate your work. I work at a university writing center. One semester I had a deaf student whose teacher kept assigning podcasts but kept forgetting to provide a transcript. I was really annoyed on her behalf. I think there are lots of students who would benefit from having access to the transcript of a podcast they have to analyze. Thanks for sharing!
thank you for watching/listening. I know that teachers using podcasts for assigned readings are an important stakeholder in this– transcripts just need to be more of an expected, regular part of all podcast productions!
Adam! thank you for explaining all of this so well and so interestingly. I was kind of familiar with .svg files previously but this was a whole added level of understanding. it’s so eye-opening to hear about the possibilities for using this coded image file format to create accessible data visualizations. are there tutorials or forthcoming workshops on how to learn and teach the tools and skills to work with .svg files in this way?
Hi Amelia! I can say I went into a bit further detail in my proceedings on how to actually implement these. Would love to submit a tutorial on it to something like Kairos since the actual guides out there from W3 and such are pretty dense. The other issue is that screen readers are not always consistent in their reading of code. Multiple issues, but I think tackling this is a way to start making big, complex data visualizations more accessible to more people instead of just trying to present the data in another way.