Chapter 13 – Accessible Media

Accessible audio and video accommodations provide access to media content.

This can include the following:

1. Closed-captioning and subtitles for videos: time-synchronized text that reflects the audio track and can be read while watching the video

2. Transcripts, which provide verbatim text for audio materials, such as podcasts or taped interviews

3. Audio description for videos, which provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, on-screen text, and other visual content which is added during existing pauses in dialogue

Once accommodations are requested through the SAR Student Portal, the SAR Center will contact your faculty to obtain media and complete captioning, transcribing, and/or audio describing for your courses.

The process of creating accessible media can be complex. Therefore, to ensure video, audio, and/or descriptions will be accessible the first day of the semester, please submit your accommodation requests each term through the SAR Student Portal according to the timeline in Chapter 7 of this handbook.

Students should contact the SAR Center at sarcenter@uta.edu with questions.