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Great thanks Alistair. It was useful hearing about the escape rooms as we are using Thinglink a lot at Leeds. Regards Patricia From: Future Teacher 3.0 free training, capacity building, self-assessment <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught Sent: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:50 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Describing complex images Hi Patricia , It was a good session yesterday and the recording will be available. I don't think Lilian has had a chance to upload it yet but as soon as it's live we'll announce the link through this list. As always, it will only be auto captions for the first week or so until the volunteer team has a chance to make some fully accurate. As an aside, we're finding chat GPT very helpful at speeding the process by tiding up punctuation etc. Still needs the human touch at the end though! Alistair Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Future Teacher 3.0 free training, capacity building, self-assessment <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Patricia Quinn <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2023 8:28:04 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Describing complex images Hi Alistair Can you send me the link please for the recording from yesterday's webinar? Many thanks Patricia From: Future Teacher 3.0 free training, capacity building, self-assessment <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 6:28 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Describing complex images Hi all After lecture capture and video captioning, alternative text for complex images is probably the next biggest issue creating anxiety for teaching staff. So many subjects are full of images that simply cannot be described in a couple of sentences. Marking them decorative is no solution and trying to give a top level summary (for example "Blooms taxonomy with associated verbs") risks even blind students seriously inadequate information. Yet some images can easily require 1000 words to describe. This would be bad enough from a workflow perspective, but it's made even worse because a thousand word description of an image maybe a very poor alternative - especially for content like maps. A group of accessibility practitioners have recently worked together to develop our "Currently best advice on complex images" that we would be using in our own workspaces to support colleagues in meeting PSBAR requirements. It's based on several core principles (like advice that's too onerous will get ignored!). We've * outlined the principles we've adopted, * provided a recommended protocol which we believe meets the spirit of the legislation, * provided a worked example, * given a suggested workflow that might save time, Link to the Complex Image guidance<https://www.learningapps.co.uk/moodle/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=3023#page1> - or http://tinyurl.com/compleximage This approach is not designed to give every image a fully adequate explanation as an actual blind student would require (although we have a section on how you might start that journey). Instead it's showing how you might use a formula based approach to provide a starting point for understanding the content and a signpost to where appropriate deeper (and bespoke) help can be found. We also suggest how captions could be used to recycle the key information so that all users can benefit from an orientation of the image purpose. The guidance isn't perfect (few things of the core challenges in accessibility are) but should hopefully start conversations. Feel free to give feedback - we're happy to publish and respond to critique. Alistair and some friends ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the FUTURETEACHER list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=FUTURETEACHER&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the FUTURETEACHER list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=FUTURETEACHER&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the FUTURETEACHER list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=FUTURETEACHER&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FUTURETEACHER list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=FUTURETEACHER&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/FUTURETEACHER, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/