Harmonize AI Accessibility

Automated audio descriptions, alt text and more

What makes world class engagement tools that encourage Universal Design for Learning even better?  Layering in AI to support accessibility goals in a tool that instructors and students already love to use.   Don’t frustrate instructors and students with extra steps, just keep recording and uploading and we’ll write the first draft of your audio descriptions and alt text for you!

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An honest look at what AI can do in Harmonize

Screenshot of a transcript editor interface with alternating audio description (AD) and closed caption (CC) entries arranged in a vertical timeline. The top AD entry at 0:00.000 says an online whiteboard is open and reads aloud the handwritten equation “Find the integrating factor for t times y prime minus two y equals three e to the power of t.” A CC entry from 0:01.049 to 0:03.630 says, “Can you find the integrating factor for this equation?” A second AD entry at 0:03.500 says, “A pink underline is drawn beneath the equation.” A final CC entry from 0:05.539 to 0:06.480 says, “What is the formula?” Each entry appears in a rounded card with edit, delete, and reorder icons, and plus buttons appear between entries to add new items.

Automatic Extended Audio Descriptions

Harmonize uses AI to review videos and screen shares and create a first draft of an audio description for instructors. Instructors can then review and edit it in a simple interface. They do not need to turn anything on or change how they work. They just keep using the tools they already use, and Harmonize handles the rest and lets them know when the draft is ready to review.

Additionally, Harmonize can generate audio descriptions for student-submitted work, helping ensure their classmates can fully participate as well.

Alt Text Generation

As instructors work to make assignments more AI-resilient, they often rely on UDL principles to encourage multimodal activities. But when media is easy to add, it is also easy to create large amounts of inaccessible content and leave students out of the more engaging learning activities.

Harmonize uses AI to generate alt text for images uploaded by students and instructors, as well as for system-generated artifact thumbnails. Users can quickly review and edit that alt text as needed.

That makes it easier to design AI-resilient learning activities while maintaining accessibility across both student and instructor content.

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