Does accessibility legislation impact on use of media in web or learning materials?
Higher Education institutions are required to comply with Disability Discrimination Act legislation with respect to the provision of accessible alternatives to websites and online learning content, such as images and multimedia used in WOLF. Equivalent accessible alternatives should be provided for users who may not be able to benefit from a video presentation as part of a website or learning material. Accessible alternatives to video and audio content include the addition of captions (subtitling), the addition of visual sign language captions, provision of contextual text-based transcriptions, and the inclusion of control panel buttons to enable users to stop, start and pause media at will. Do not provide inaccessible media with valuable content that cannot be gleaned from other learning materials and on which assessment is partly (or wholly) dependent.
