Accessible Podcatcher
7 Keywords: Podcasts, Podcatching, Webbie, Blind, Visual Impairment, Audio Files, Streaming
Webbie Accessible Podcatcher is an easy way of listening to Podcasts if you use a screen reader or need keyboard access to podcasts. It offers a simple linear text based list of links with media buttons for playing audio and volume control. However, there are many other podcatchers and the PodcatcherMatrix offers comparisons. There have been several blogs covering the topic of Accessible Podcasts.
- iTunes and making accessible podcasts
This is a pdf training manual from The High Tech Center Training Unit which covers both the accessible issues of making and catching podcasts with an iPod and iTunes.
- Making Podcasts Accessible
Advice about making podcasts accessible with text transcripts and audio descriptions. Clear guides and ideas for presentation.
- Podcast: Supporting users with disabilities – challenges and opportunities
"Susan Smith is a learning support officer for Leeds Metropolitan University and Isabel Arreola is one of the students Susan supports. In this podcast interview, they talk to Philip Pothen about the very different challenges they face – for Susan, in mainstreaming support services for disabled students and staff, and for Isabel, as a blind student, in accessing the resources she needs to ensure a level playing-field with her classmates." JISC podcast 28 July 2008
