/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/gary-morin/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-why-and-how-to-make-them/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:00:51 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-why-and-how-to-make-them/ Making Web content and video accessible to people with disabilities is the law. Ensuring a video is accessible requires planning. Taking steps from day one will save you time and money. To verify that a video is accessible you’d need to incorporate three elements: Captioning Audio descriptions An Accessible video player Why Accessibility Matters Many government /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-use-a-508-compliant-video-player/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:00:37 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-use-a-508-compliant-video-player/ When you watch a video on your computer, the window that displays your video is called a “video player.” It usually has start, pause, and other buttons. You might not be aware that you’re using a player at all—you just watch your video. A fully-accessible video player (e.g. Section 508-compliant) /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-how-to-make-audio-descriptions/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:00:33 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-how-to-make-audio-descriptions/ An audio description is an additional audio track that describes and gives context for essential visual information, making videos and multimedia accessible to people who have low vision (very poor vision), or who are blind. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-how-to-caption-videos/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:00:22 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/06/30/508-accessible-videos-how-to-caption-videos/ What are Captions? In a video, captions collect all audio information and describe them using text. They include not only spoken content but also non-speech information such as sound effects, music, laughter, and speaker identification and location (for example, audio spoken off-screen). Captions appear transposed over the visual elements in