When thoughtfully used, utilitarian and generative AI has the ability to enhance personalization for accessibility in all types of media. This session will present two projects that use AI to offer individualized accessibility options for students accessing multimedia content:
- Plain Language AI works with videos to allow the teacher, parent, or student to adjust the language level of the content presented in the audio description, the captions, and the audio track.
- Bridging Image Description is an AI-enhanced program that creates image descriptions of complex mathematical images. The image description is presented auditorily, accompanied by adjustable size text on the screen with highlighting. The image description can also be converted to Spanish audio and text.
Both technologies will be demonstrated, and information about these projects will be presented, including the role of humans in mediating the AI and protocol for protecting the security and safety of student data. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their positive and negative experiences with AI and the additional possibilities and limitations of AI applications in the classroom.
Presenter
Wendy Sapp Ph.D.
COMS, Senior Project Director and Content Literacy Specialist, Bridge Multimedia
Wendy Sapp, Ph.D., COMS: Drawing on her experiences as a special education teacher and certified orientation and mobility specialist, Dr. Sapp has spent 18 years focused on accessible media for children and adults with low vision or blindness, including those with additional disabilities. At Bridge Multimedia, Dr. Sapp has led teams to produce thousands of hours of audio description for children’s educational television programming, multiple award-winning fully accessible educational games and apps, video podcasts for Deaf audiences, ASL production for television programming, and fully accessible videos on procuring accessible media for students. Through this work, Dr. Sapp conducts iterative testing to continually push the bounds of accessibility and improve accessibility experiences.
