Additional workshops set on creating accessible content and videos

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The Communications and Community Relations Department is offering additional Zoom workshops on creating accessible documents and videos. Learn how to incorporate accessibility into your workflow and efficiently create accessible content to share online. Staff are also welcome to bring their existing documents and brainstorm on how to create accessible versions for the web.

Creating Accessible Content

This one-hour course offers a broad overview of the components of accessibility, as well as how to create accessible documents to share online. Authoring tools covered include Microsoft Word, Google Documents, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides and more.

Enhancing the Accuracy of Automatically-Generated Captions

Interested in creating accessible videos to share with our community? Attendees of this workshop will learn how to leverage YouTube’s speech recognition software to efficiently create captions. Tips include increasing the accuracy of the automatic captioning, how to edit the captions for grammar and spelling and how to correctly format captions for sounds or music.

If you have additional accessibility tips or questions, please reach out to Robert Hardy, the district’s website accessibility specialist.