3 posts tagged with "ADA Title II"

County and municipal PEG access channels sit at the center of public meeting video in Colorado. You simulcast council and board sessions to cable, your website, and YouTube. Cities and school districts ask your station for guidance on accessible broadcasts. And when budget season arrives, directors need a defensible story for how live captioning, archived captions, and audio descriptions get funded.

This guide is written for Colorado PEG and access channel directors, franchise administrators, and AV staff evaluating captioning vendors. It covers the legal landscape, how PEG funding may apply, and a practical procurement workflow that starts with measuring your gap before you commit.

Not all educational videos are the same, and the way you audio describe them should not be the same either. A screencast with code scrolling across the screen presents completely different challenges than a chemistry lab demonstration or a talking head over a slide deck. For example, typical reccomendations of describing all on-screen text don't work well when the entire screen is covered in code and rapidly shifts between opened files in an IDE. The visual information that matters, the pacing, and the level of detail required all change depending on the format.

This guide breaks down the most common educational video formats and explains what to prioritize, what you can safely omit, and whether standard or extended audio descriptions are the better fit. Whether you are producing descriptions manually or reviewing AI-generated output, these format-specific techniques from Recap Innovations will help you create descriptions that are accurate, useful, and well-timed.

Audio descriptions are required for pre-recorded video content under WCAG 2.1 AA and ADA Title II. They make visual information accessible to blind and low-vision viewers by narrating actions, settings, on-screen text, and other elements that are not conveyed through dialogue or sound effects. With the ADA Title II compliance deadline in April 2026, institutions managing large video libraries need to decide how to produce descriptions at scale.

There are two primary approaches: fully automated AI generation and human-authored descriptions. Each has distinct strengths, and many teams benefit from combining both. This article breaks down the trade-offs and helps you choose the right workflow for your content.