Universal Design for Video
Universal design for video is required by law for public actors and recommended for private users in EU, the US, and many other areas. This entails requirements for, among other things, subtitling/captioning, readability, speech clarity, audio description, and sign language interpretation.
It can be time-consuming to create videos that satisfy these requirements, and therefore it is important to have a good workflow with a high degree of automation where possible. On this course you will learn techniques and methods that help you in the process.
Universal Access with Subtitles, Audio Description and Sign Language interpretation are amongst the topics
Course content
- Requirements for Universal Design of video
- Current regulations
- Exceptions to the requirements
- Declaration of availability
- Upcoming regulations
- Subtitling with AI
- Speech to text locally on the machine
- Cloud-based solutions
- Translation with AI
- The SRT file format
- Audio Description
- Insert audio track with Audio Description
- Extend clips with AI
- Choose which tracks to listen to
- Export of various audio tracks
- Audio mix
- Requirements for speech intelligibility
- Normalizing and Compression for even levels
- Ducking of music and use of frequency gaps in the music
- The importance of close microphone
- Remove reverberation and noise, improve sound with AI
- Contrast in graphics and text
- Readability requirements
- Safe Zones
- Tool to check if the contrast is within the limits
- Color blindness simulator
- Sign Language interpretation
- Different interpreting solutions
- Picture in picture
- Publication
- Text file or burned-in text
- Select audio channels
- Upload additional audio channels for visual interpretation
- Examples from YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo, Broadcasters
Why choose this course?
- You will be assured that your videos comply with the requirements for Universal Design.
- You get to know various tools that save you time.
- You learn a good workflow that ensures efficiency and accuracy.
Target group
Content producers, info people, photographers, video reporters, journalists, video editors – everyone who makes video for the web.
Prior knowledge
There are no special requirements for prior knowledge.
In-house course – or online training
This is a company-internal course. It can be run on your premises, or via Teams/Zoom/Google Meet etc.
If we decide to run it on-premise, you must provide a course room with a good projector and a sound system. We use your equipment during the course.
