Guidelines: Accessibility Features and Compliance  

The FADGI AudioVisual Working Group is focusing on evaluating and assessing accessibility features and compliance. As of 2024, there are three main projects:

• Embedded Metadata in WebVTT Files, which includes a lightweight embedded metadata structure to document provenance, administrative history, and contextual information for WebVTT files which are often used for captions and subtitles.
• Accessibility Features for Digital Audiovisual Collections Content, which includes Definitions for Key Accessibility Features for Digital Audiovisual Collections Content and Survey Results: The Current State (2022) of Accessibility Features for Audiovisual Collections Content in Five FADGI Institutions
• Software Accessibility for Open Source Digital Preservation Applications, which includes recommendations for accessibility best practices for open-source software

 

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Working Groups

Still Image Working Group
This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials.

Audio-Visual Working Group
This group works collaboratively on common and sustainable technical guidelines, methods, and practices for digitized and born digital sound recordings and moving images.