What Are Audible Captions? Back in July of 2019, Amazon-based platform Audible announced a new feature called “Audible Captions”. The feature, as you might have guessed, provided machine-generated captions to accompany Audible’s audiobooks. These captions only provided users with around 3 words of text at time, which were shown as the text was read aloud. […]
How Video Games Are Becoming More Accessible
If you’ve played a AAA video game recently, you might’ve noticed a new category within the pause menu: Accessibility. And the options featured in this Accessibility menu have been becoming a lot more robust. Color Contrast Settings Realistic military shooters have been a highly saturated genre for many years. Games like Call of Duty and […]
The Harvard Content Accessibility Lawsuit
Here are some fast facts about the recently settled high profile web content accessibility lawsuits filed against Harvard and MIT. Both of these lawsuits were officially settled in February 2020 by way of consent decrees. Each school agreed to a new accessibility standard for all future content. They also agreed to bring all existing content […]
Best Practices for Video Accessibility
For some, the presence of a video on a computer screen is… just that. A video. Information presented in the form of images and sound. For others, that video is a gap in the information accessible to them from the website, EPUB or document as a whole. You’ve put time into your message. You’ve put […]