Accessibility community drop-in
Your opportunity to ask questions about digital inclusion.
- Online
- 1 hour
- Free
This course will be held on
07 May 2025
- Zoom
- 12:30 – 13:30
Extraordinary closed captions: correcting academic language with AI
The University of Edinburgh automatically records and transcribes lectures and provides automatic transcription of other media uploaded to its platforms. As a large institution with a diverse audience, providing accurate transcripts is an important way to make teaching and learning, and public messages, accessible. The university runs a caption correction service which employs student interns to edit media captions where necessary.
The team at Edinburgh has been testing AI solutions to streamline and improve the processes. They’ve seen some promising results that they would now like to share with the accessibility community. Attendees will learn about some of the challenges faced, how these have been overcome, and what applications of AI we might look forward to in the near future, applying what’s been learned from the teams’ exploratory use of AI.
As always, there will be lots of opportunities for community members to discuss, share experiences, and develop their own plans and ideas in a friendly and supportive group.
Guest presenter: Nelly (Ileana) Iacobescu, Media and AI Service Manager, Information Services Group, University of Edinburgh.
About the community drop-in
Are you struggling to meet web accessibility regulations? Or reshaping your digital provision to make teaching and learning more inclusive?
This live online accessibility community drop-in gives you the opportunity to ask questions about digital inclusion, provide feedback on areas that are problematic, and share your accessibility journey with others.
During the drop-in you'll:
- Have an opportunity to share your experiences with and learn from like-minded people at different stages of developing accessible policy and practice
- Gain feedback and support on any areas that may have been problematic
- Get signposting to other resources and links to communities of practice where appropriate
- Establish links with people working to overcome the same problems
- Get the opportunity to shape the Jisc offer in this area
Sessions are led by our subject specialists Laura Hutton and Kellie Mote, with input from colleagues and recognised specialists.
Accessibility community drop-ins will run from 12:30 to 13:30 on the first Wednesday of each month during the academic calendar.
Who should attend?
Anyone interested in accessibility. You don't need to be an expert or working in accessibility to contribute. If you're interested in making the world more accessible for everyone, you're welcome!
Monthly drop-ins are open to Jisc member organisations (UK further education colleges, specialist colleges or higher education institutions).
Session preparation and setup
Before the community drop-in, please read below to ensure successful access.
- The drop-in will be run in Zoom, with live automated captioning and transcription. For the best experience, download the Zoom client for your device
- Meeting ID: 963 681 4040 / Passcode: 232468 / Direct Zoom URL
- You'll also need a headset, or headphones and a microphone
- Please sign in using your full name
- Participants’ microphones will be muted on entry. If you would like to speak, please use the raise hand tool or the chat pane to indicate this
- We'll be taking questions during the drop-in, which you can submit in the chat pane
- If you will be using BSL interpreters through Access to Work and require permission to 'pin' interpreters, please let us know
Before the community drop-in, please read below to ensure successful access.
- The drop-in will be run in Zoom, with live automated captioning and transcription. For the best experience, download the Zoom client for your device
- Meeting ID: 963 681 4040 / Passcode: 232468 / Direct Zoom URL
- You'll also need a headset, or headphones and a microphone
- Please sign in using your full name
- Participants’ microphones will be muted on entry. If you would like to speak, please use the raise hand tool or the chat pane to indicate this
- We'll be taking questions during the drop-in, which you can submit in the chat pane
- If you will be using BSL interpreters through Access to Work and require permission to 'pin' interpreters, please let us know
Contact
For more information, email training@jisc.ac.uk or phone 01235 822242.
Professional training
Looking for something more in-depth, with a smaller group of professionals, or just for your organisation?
Jisc provides a range of short courses to build your confidence in implementing accessibility and assistive technology. Courses are delivered online throughout the year, or if choosing in-house delivery, at a time to suit you and your colleagues. Participants can also earn digital accreditation to evidence their development. Learn more about Jisc’s accessibility and assistive technology short courses.
Drop-in recordings
March 2025 - Exploring generative AI and accessible communication
Dr Andy Coverdale | University of Southampton
Dr Katy Brickley, translator at Go Easy Read and visiting research associate at King’s College London explore how we can ensure that our written communication can be understood by as many people as possible. They share many years' experience of working and conducting research with people with learning disabilities and draw on a recent project with experts by experience exploring the use of generative AI to create accessible texts. In March's session, they outline the role of 'Easy Read' and similar formats, comparing traditional methods of co-production with emergent generative AI practices.