Three student stories: Ben, Sam, and Morgan. They’re among the 1 in 5 American undergraduates who have disabilities (NCES 1). But you may have never heard their stories, because 65% of these students don’t ever inform their college (… Continue reading »
For faculty aiming to create an inclusive learning community, accessibility is an important element of course (and content) design. Unlike in the past, most mainstream applications today (like Google Workspace) make it incredibly easy to create digital materials which are accessible from the start – avoiding the stress of… Continue reading »
Faculty can easily make their in-class slide presentations more accessible to all students, by activating the standard “live caption” feature in either Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. This feature automatically produces on-screen text captions from the audio captured via system microphone. Whether a student is Deaf, hard of hearing,… Continue reading »
Introduction The Immersive Reader feature provides every GLOW user a set of customizable tools to enhance their academic access. Immersive Reader supports fluency for multilingual students with translation tools; offers text decoding features for students with dyslexia; provides text-to-speech audio; and includes visual scaffolding options to improve reading comprehension and… Continue reading »
Williams strives to be a place “where concern for the needs and ideas of other people is not only an educational, but an ethical, imperative” (Williams College Mission). Accessibility is an effort to ensure that all students, regardless of disability, face as few unnecessary barriers as possible to their… Continue reading »
Instructors can stop Panopto (the Course Media Gallery) from adding closed captions automatically into videos at the folder level. You can still manually apply them to each video after the option is turned off, Go to the folder Click on the gear icon … Continue reading »
As a Panopto creator (usually the instructor), you can delete the automatic closed captions in a single Panopto video by going to the settings area: Click on “Settings” under the title of the video Select “Captions” from the left navigation bar Select the language to delete Choose “Delete Captions” and… Continue reading »
GLOW’s Course Media Gallery (Panopto) produces automated captions that are typically about 80% accurate that can be applied to audio or video materials that are created or uploaded. Since Zoom cloud recordings are automatically moved into Panopto, these are available to be captioned as well. To apply automated captions, go… Continue reading »
All Zoom meeting hosts have the option to enable Live Transcription closed captioning in Zoom meetings and are encouraged to do so. To make live transcription available to meeting participants, hosts can select the ‘Live Transcription’ button in Zoom and then select ‘Enable Auto-Transcription’. Not seeing the Live Transcripts button?… Continue reading »
Williams VPN Running the VPN client allows you to establish a secure connection to the college network. Your computer acts as though it were here on campus. Among other things this allows a keyserver connection to run Williams licensed software from off-campus. The VPN connection is limited to Faculty, Staff… Continue reading »
You can use Adobe Acrobat Pro (available to all Williams staff) to create fully accessible PDFs. This app includes the Make Accessible Action Wizard that walks you through the steps required to make a PDF accessible, and ensures accessibility by running the Accessibility Checker tool. Scanned files are not accessible… Continue reading »