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Check Your Refund Status AND Pay Your Taxes With IRS2Go
IRS2Go, offered for Amazon, Android and iOS, is one of the oldest and arguably most popular government apps.
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
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)
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.
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