Accessing Content Audibly

Hearing features allow students to customize how sound is delivered on their device so they can hear, understand, and interact with content more easily.

Live Captions: Live captions place spoken words as text on the screen, helping students follow along with audio and spoken content more easily.

Closed Captions: Closed captions display spoken dialogue and important sounds as text during pre-recorded videos, allowing students to read along with audio content.

Transcriptions: Transcriptions provide a written record of spoken content, allowing students to read, review, and revisit information at their own pace.

Video Audio Alerts: Visual audio alerts provide visual cues for sounds and notifications, allowing students to notice important audio information without relying on hearing.

Audio Descriptions: Audio descriptions provide spoken narration of visual content, helping students understand what is happening in videos, images, or animations.

Hearing Case Study Activity

Step 1. Determine if you will be working with a team or individually.

Step 2. Open the slide deck linked below after you read through the steps. You may want to make a copy (or download if you are a Microsoft school) and save it in your own Drive.

• You will find three case study scenarios. Read through the scenarios.
• Complete the Try It Out for each case study.
  • You may want to explore other tools listed in the Tools for Audible Access section on this page.
• Complete the Reflection for each case study.

Step 3. Complete the final reflection on the last slide.

• It is beneficial to reflect with colleagues.

21T4S Acc Toolbox - Hearing Case Study Scenarios