Multimedia Issues

Don't know how many of you are going into using Multimedia. Obviously, if you're streaming audio that's very convenient for a blind person. You then may have to have a transcription of the text for a deaf student. And if you're streaming video, you may have to think about both the blind student and the deaf student. Certainly you're going to need streaming captions for the deaf student. And an open caption VHS tape won't run, won't work. In the course of steaming it, the picture's degraded enough you can't read the captions; you have to have special internet captioning. It can be done; it takes extra work and time.
For the blind student - if you're doing a lot of movement and visual things without discussing what you're doing, then you may have to add descriptive audio especially for the blind student. If I were in charge of a faculty member making a video, I would urge him to verbalize what he was doing, so you didn't have to dub in descriptive video. And I guarantee that for a person seeing the video, hearing you describe what you are doing and watching you do it will reinforce what's going on and it will be a benefit to them as well.