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Blindness Is Not All or Nothing

by Elisa Lewis in Video Accessibility

When people hear the word blind, they often think of someone who cannot see at all.  However, blindness isn’t black and white – there is a huge grey area. 3.5% of the world’s population live with vision impairment – that’s 253 million…

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Updated April 16, 2021

Deep Dive: How Audio Description Benefits Everyone

by Elisa Lewis in Video Accessibility

Many products and features that we come across daily evolved from products and ideas meant to increase accessibility. Building ramps, which people often use to lug a heavy suitcases or push a stroller, were built with the intention of allowing individuals in…

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Updated August 23, 2024

WCAG 2.0 vs. 2.1: What You Should Know

by 3mediaweb in Video Accessibility

WCAG 2.0 and Beyond: Modernizing Web Accessibility [Free Ebook] WCAG 2.0 vs. 2.1: What’s the difference between them? When the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 were released in 2018, there was confusion about whether web developers would need to change websites and…

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Updated September 20, 2023

How Oracle Uses 3Play Media to Caption Their Training Videos

by 3mediaweb in Case Studies

62% of employees with a disability have an invisible disability or a disability that one cannot immediately identify upon meeting a person. Hearing loss is an invisible disability. Oracle uses captioning to make their Oracle University content accessible to deaf and hard…

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Updated February 14, 2024

How to Simplify Your Captioning Workflow

by 3mediaweb in Video Accessibility

If complex workflows are your biggest challenge, then use these tips to simplify your captioning workflow. Adding captions is a process, but that doesn’t mean it should be complex. Through integrations, API workflows, and centralization, you can make the captioning process simpler.…

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Updated August 24, 2023

Q&A with Paul Grossman: Who Is Responsible for Ensuring Accessibility?

by 3mediaweb in Video Accessibility

Paul Grossman is a Former Chief Reginal Attorney for the US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Paul is an expert on accessibility laws in higher education. In the webinar, The Legal Year in Review: Accessibility Trends in Higher Ed,…

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Updated June 3, 2019

How to Get Buy-In for Captioning

by 3mediaweb in Video Accessibility

The number one barrier to captioning is cost and budget. Depending on the amount of video content you produce, your captioning bill can rack up quickly. Suddenly, getting buy-in becomes a challenge. Data shows that most of the people in an organization…

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Updated August 7, 2024

5 Tips for Speeding Up the Captioning Process

by 3mediaweb in Video Accessibility

Captioning in-house can take up a lot of time. Fortunately, there are a couple of tips and tricks you can try to help speed up the process. Instead of having to transcribe every word in the video, why not try using a…

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Updated August 25, 2023

How to Tell If You Are Required to Caption Your Videos

by 3mediaweb in Video Accessibility

Captioning is a critical part of video accessibility. But not all organizations are required to caption (though they should still caption!). Captioning requirements also vary by industry, and often, complying with one law doesn’t mean you comply with all the laws. Because…

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Updated August 7, 2024

Brightcove Gallery

by Elisa Lewis in How-To

Video interactivity significantly enriches the viewing experience by offering the viewer greater control over what they’re watching by using the text as a navigation tool. What is Brightcove Gallery? Brightcove’s Gallery makes it easy for marketers to create customized video experiences with…

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Updated March 13, 2024

How to Centralize Video Accessibility Efforts at Your Organization

by 3mediaweb in Uncategorized

Unfortunately, not all the video being produced today is accessible to everyone. Lack of captions, transcripts, and audio description inhibit a large portion of the population from enjoying and interacting with your video content. Often, accessible content is put on the back…

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Updated August 25, 2023

Audio Description for Higher Education

by Elisa Lewis in Video Accessibility

Incorporating video into higher education is extremely common. In a student research study, students reported that almost 100% of courses included some video content in both online and face-to-face environments. Meanwhile, according to the report for the 2017 National Health Interview Survey,…

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Updated November 17, 2021
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