Creating Accessible and Inclusive Video

1h 20mGeneral2024-03-13

Authors

Ashley Kennedy

Managing Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning

Course details

Prioritizing accessibility throughout the production process is essential for creating inclusive video content. In this course, join LinkedIn Learning staff instructor Ashley Kennedy to learn how to create video projects that are accessible to the widest possible audience and that reflect best practices for promoting inclusion—from casting and crew selection to writing, editing, and fine-tuning assets and scripts.

Explore the fundamentals of why you should focus on creating more accessible and more inclusive video content. Get started curating video experiences and forming connections with a wide variety of audiences, planning and testing for accessibility along the way. Ashley offers insights and practical strategies to create inclusive video content that features a diverse array of topics, curates scripts and content with diversity and inclusion in mind, recruits and casts diverse crew and talent, avoids jargon and insider terms, and more.

Skills covered

AccessibilityVideo ProductionWorkplace EquityInclusive LeadershipDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)User ExperienceVideoLeadership and ManagementOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Prioritize video accessibility and inclusivity

1. Why Create Accessible and Inclusive Videos

02 - Benefits of creating an accessible experience
03 - Benefits of creating inclusive content

2. Create an Accessible Experience

04 - Be thoughtful about color, contrast, and light
05 - Optimize for text clarity
06 - Create captions for all audiences
07 - Create subtitles and consider other localization strategies
08 - Create a transcript
09 - Create audio descriptions
10 - Include a sign language interpreter
11 - Choose accessible video and audio formats
12 - Choose an accessible video player
13 - Plan proactively and test for accessibility

3. Create Inclusive Content

14 - Be thoughtful about featuring diverse video topics
15 - Script with diversity and inclusion in mind
16 - Avoid jargon, buzzwords, and insider terms
17 - Recruit a diverse video crew
18 - Cast diverse talent
19 - Prioritize diverse asset creation and curation

Conclusion

20 - Next steps