Videos are based on visual information, which makes it difficult for blind and visually impaired people to access their contents. However, there are some ways to help your visually impaired students benefit from your videos.

Transcript

If you only plan to show your video once, in a class session, a transcript is the easiest solution. Describe the contents and also transcribe the audio track, so students can navigate the descriptions as they listen to the video. You can find technical guidance for transcription in Chapter 7.1.

Personal assistant

If your visually impaired students work with a personal assistant, the assistant can describe the visual contents of a video.

Additional audio track

Videos that you use frequently or want to make available permanently and to a wider audience can be equipped with an additional audio track describing what is happening in the video. However, creating such an additional audio track is extremely time-consuming and is not possible in all video editing programs. For this reason, we do not provide technical instructions for this process.