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The Video Accessibility Specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring that UFIT's streaming video content is accessible to a wide audience, including individuals with disabilities. This position involves coordinating the captioning process, providing guidance and training, maintaining quality standards, and offering technical support for the video management and streaming platforms. The Video Accessibility Specialist works to ensure compliance with accessibility standards and legal requirements.
Some key responsibilities and characteristics of this position are:
- Coordinate the captioning process for all streaming video content on UFIT’s platforms, utilizing captioning and transcription software, automated and AI captioning tools, and collaborating with captioning vendors to ensure timely and accurate captioning services.
- Provide guidance and training to content creators and captioning staff on best practices for captioning. Maintain records and documentation related to captioning services and quality control procedures.
- Accurately transcribe spoken words from streaming video content into written text format. Review and edit captions for accuracy, grammar, and readability to maintain high-quality standards.
- Provide technical support for the video management and streaming platform users, including troubleshooting and resolving technical issues, providing training and support for content creators, and ensuring the platform meets user needs.
- Regularly evaluate the performance of the captioning process and other accessibility initiatives. Stay up to date on accessibility standards set forth be the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
About UF Information Technology
Led by Vice President and CIO Elias Eldayrie, the eight departments comprising UFIT are: Academic Technology; Applications, Development, and Integrations; Business Center; Customer Experience and Resource Planning; Data Platform and Analytics; Information Security Office; Infrastructure and Communication Technology; and Research Computing. UF Information Technology (UFIT) enables teaching, learning, research, and service on campus and across the region with state-of-the-art enterprise IT systems, including SEC and SUS universities, and the opportunity to teach using HiPerGator. For more information about UFIT and its goals and governance, visit https://it.ufl.edu/about-ufit/strategic-plan/.
About the University of Florida
One of America’s all-around best universities, the University of Florida drives future-making education, eye-opening discoveries, life-saving health care, and community-building collaboration for our state, our nation, and our world. UF is in Gainesville, a city of approximately 150,000 residents in North-Central Florida, 50 miles from Florida’s West Coast, 67 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, and within a 2-hour drive to large metropolitan areas (Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville). The beautiful climate and extensive nearby parks and recreational areas afford year-round outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, and nature photography. UF’s large college sports programs, museums, and performing arts center support various activities and cultural events for residents to enjoy. Learn more about what Gainesville has to offer at Visit Gainesville.
Exceptional Benefits
UF provides various leave programs based on an employee’s salary plan, including vacation, sick leave, holidays, personal leave days, and paid family leave. In addition to paid time off, the University of Florida offers a very competitive benefits package.
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