Making Videos Accessible to All
Video has long been a great medium to convey content in more expressive and imaginative ways than text or imagery alone. Ever since their introduction to the digital environment, people have used videos to attempt to capture the spectrum of the human experience (and then some) using storytelling devices, set/background/clothing design, choreography, music, and sound design, and expressive acting.
How can we take a medium so complex and varied and ensure that everyone can engage with it in a meaningful way? In this article, we’ll explore the guidance from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and techniques like text, captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions to learn how to maximize your ability to reach diverse audiences and conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
At Accessible360, we help our clients fix inaccessible web carousels and sliders practically every day. In fact, in our experience, carousels and sliders are some of the most common sources of accessibility barriers that we find, regardless of the size or type of website they are found on!
As part of our mission to help make the web Accessible For All™, we’ve been working hard to create resources for our clients to help them build more accessible carousels and sliders, and now we’d like to share that content with you!
