Abstract

Multimedia techniques are engaging instructional tools. "Everyone benefits from dynamic visual displays and dialog Well, not everyone. Viewers who are deaf miss all audio content that is not also presented in a visual form. Those who are blind can access only the visual content that is also presented in spoken form. It is not difficult to make video and multimedia products accessible to viewers with sensory impairments, but special considerations should be made at the design phase to assure full access to everyone."(Burgstahler, 2001)There various methodologies for multimedia are used to assist those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing such as "off-line captioning" and for those who are blind benefit from an audio link. The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to disabled persons, minority-language users and people with low literacy skills.

Citation

Gardner, D. & French, D. (2002). Accessibility Implications for Multimedia. In M. Driscoll & T. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2002--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1493-1494). Montreal, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 5, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/9372/.

© 2002 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• literacy skills
• Multimedia