Tools

3PlayMedia provides a number of services to help users easily create accessible videos. Services include creating closed captions, audio description, transcription, and translation and subtitling, all of which are essential to providing accessible video content. 3PlayMedia is a paid service, with three pricing plans that are intended to work for a...

This web page, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, provides a 12-page guide on assistive listening systems. This guide includes an overview of personal implication devices, assistive listening systems, institutional and student responsibility for equipment, law requirements, types of listening systems, tips for faculty and...

This webpage, from the National Deaf Center on Post Secondary Outcomes, provides a 2-page tip sheet that provides information about assistive listening devices and their use in the classroom. This tip sheet includes an overview and discusses the following questions: What are assistive listening systems, What is a telecoil, What are the different...

This webpage, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, provides a 2-page tip sheet about cochlear implants. A brief overview is included and the following questions are discussed: how do cochlear implants (CI) work, what are the parts of a CI, how does a CI produce sound, and what accommodations will a person with CIs need? A list...

This webpage from the University of Washington describes a variety of ways for making video content accessible. "An accessible video includes captions, a transcript, and audio description and is delivered in an accessible media player." The webpage includes list of resources for captioning and audio description, including paid services,...

Sonocent is a note-taking and audio recording software that runs on a desktop, or in the cloud. The software puts audio recordings, slides, and notes in one spot for students to enhance capturing, organizing, and reviewing class notes. Audio recordings can be highlighted to signify different tasks.

This 52-page study from Oregon State University, provided by 3Play Media, offers an overview of college students' awareness of and engagement with closed captioning and transcripts, examining reasons for their usage and the benefits associated with them. According to the survey results, 70% of students use closed captioning at least some of the...