Sage Levene contributed a terrific piece on digital accessibility in podcasting last summer. In honor of the 10th Global Accessibility Awareness Day, she’s refreshed her work with updates and professional learnings from the past year. The author is the Broadcast Manager for the New York-based Morey Creative Studios.
“Our entire audience should be able to perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with podcasts,” Levene writes. “It’s that simple.” Those four verbs come straight from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which she applies to podcast artwork, scripting, social media, hosting software, and more.
The subscription podcasting boom raises an important point. “Accessible features should not be held ransom behind a paywall,” Levene asserts. “If an accessible version is being made, it needs to be widely available.” Fortunately for podcasters and their audiences, inclusive solutions are more available than ever.
Spotify has begun an education initiative around podcasts and copyrighted content. According to a quick-guide blog post, the company is “building some helpful tools that will become available later this year.” Its subscription podcasting model will be expanding at the same time, as will the volume of violations.
Subscriptions don’t support easily shared private RSS feeds, but exclusive shows will always be copied. The warning may also be related to this week’s rollout of new accessibility features. Once the company begins to auto-transcribe all podcasts on its platform, duplicate clips will be much easier to detect.
“Ever-evolving” music use regulations are emphasized in the post, as are solutions offered by Anchor’s ‘Music + Talk’ shows. According to Spotify, “We believe all creators should be fairly compensated for their work and control its use.” When the sentiment applies to employees of Gimlet Media, it may ring true.
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