Tips for Accessible Presentations and Documents
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Accessible Documents and Presentations
- Duke Web Accessibility guidelines for document accessibility
- WebAIM accessible document instructions
- DLF Webinar on Creating Accessible Presentations
- Alternative Text
- UK Home Office - Accessibility Posters PDF
Also see trainings below.
Captioning Live Presentations and Videos
Automatic Live Captions During Presentations
Please note: automated transcription services are typically less accurate than human transcription. Consider exploring live human captioning for the highest quality live transcription/captioning.
Tool | Instructions |
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Zoom |
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PowerPoint | |
MS Teams | |
Google Slides | |
Otter.ai for Zoom meetings (might require subscription) |
Generating Captions Automatically for Recordings
Please note: automated transcription services are typically less accurate than human transcription. Before posting captions with your recordings, you should manually edit the captions for accuracy.
Tool | Instructions |
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Zoom (must be recorded to the cloud) |
Note: if you are using both the audio transcript and live transcript options in Zoom, you may get two separate caption files. They're not identical, so you could review each to see which is a better starting point. |
Panopto |
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YouTube |
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Warpwire |
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Adobe Premiere Pro (requires Adobe Creative Cloud license) | |
Microsoft Word (Office 365) creates a nicely formatted transcript, rather than timed captions |
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Manually Editing Captions
Tool | Instructions |
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Zoom | |
Panopto | |
YouTube | |
Warpwire |
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Adobe Premiere Pro | Note: Premiere Pro requires captions to be in SRT format. If you have a VTT format from a tool like Zoom, you can use Happy Scribe to convert from VTT to SRT. |
Trainings
Duke Libraries Teaching and Learning Forum - February 2023
Duke Webinar on Inclusive Zoom Events (December 2020)
Libraries Summer Camp 2022 - Accessibility Sessions
- Adventures in Document Accessibility Video
- Adventures in Document Accessibility Materials
- Inclusive Events Video
- Inclusive Events Materials