Service Description
OIT offers remediation from industry-standard external vendors, at cost, for inaccessible digital resources including but not limited to audio and audiovisual media, slideshow presentations, and other electronic documents.
Service Details
- Audio Description, or descriptive narration, describes visual components in media that are not otherwise explained auditorily. Audio description is necessary to ensure accessibility for people who are blind.
- Captioning is audio-synchronized text alternative to speech and non-speech audio in media. Captioning is necessary to ensure accessibility for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Transcription is necessary to ensure accessibility for people who are deafblind.
- Accessible Markup for static electronic documents—Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets; Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel; or Portable Document Files (PDFs)—is necessary to ensure accessibility for people who are blind and use screen reading software, people with colorblindness, people with cognitive disabilities, and others who use adaptive technology or alternative access means.
Please refer to PSU’s Digital Accessibility Policy and OIT’s Media Accessibility Resource for additional information regarding media accessibility best practices and requirements at PSU.
Availability
This service is available to the following groups:
Charges and Fees
- Audio Description
$7.25–11.50 per video minute, depending on audio density - Transcription and Captioning
$1.85 per video minute, with higher fees for expedited or rush turnaround - Document Remediation
Cost and turnaround times are based on vendor assessment of the length and complexity of your document.
Please refer to Digital Media Remediation Resources for additional information regarding cost and turnaround estimates.
Terms and Conditions