Accessibility
For my final project I made sure to make my page accessible to everyone. All of my images have alt text attached. I made sure that the alt text was descriptive enough to convey what they image is but not too “wordy”. I wanted to ensure that the colors of my page stood out, but were not so vibrant that it was offensive to the eyes or hard to read. I did this especially when it came to the headers and the font size and color. I wanted it to make the different sections obvious so it made it easy to find each specific topic. I tried to make my descriptive text clear and that it showed what the link was going to lead to. Although some were more difficult than others. All of my audio was transcribed and has captions. However, I had difficulty getting the caption timing to line up with the audio of the video.
Polished and Complete
I would like to think that my site is “polished and complete”. I have my header with my site logo as well as a favicon. I have a landing page that is clear, friendly, and easy to read, understand, and follow. I have my footer with my “lorem ipsum” information. However, I feel that it even if it were “perfect” it would still be wrong.
Information Accuracy
When completing my research and my interviews I spoke with subject matter experts in the field. I wanted to ensure that what I was sharing was true. Although there were some things that I had to use the internet to find, the majority was done through the interview process.
Copyright and Attribution
To determine the copyright I wanted, I chose to use the Creative Commons License Chooser. It was very easy to navigate the site to figure out what you wanted. I knew that I wanted people to be able to use my work but I feel that credit needs to be given. I also knew that I didn’t want my work to be used for commercial purposes. I know that by choosing the next one, I was making it difficult for my work to be improved upon, but I chose that my work could only be used in an unadapted form. That meant that the license that was recommended to me was
RECOMMENDED LICENSE
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only.
- BY: Credit must be given to you, the creator.
- NC: Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted.Noncommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.
- ND: No derivatives or adaptations of your work are permitted.
Media Used
The audio and video that was used in my project was taken with an iPhone 13 ProMax. I do not have access to or the ability to get more sophisticated equipment. However, since I am not majoring in anything that pertains to film making, I felt that this was acceptable and did a pretty good job with both the audio and visual recordings. I also felt, with the topic that I chose, using my phone to take pictures, videos, and recording made people more comfortable. As well as making it safer for me to go into some of the places I did to get pictures and video.
AI
Although I have really enjoyed playing around with the features that AI offers, I wanted to use actual pictures that were taken of the homeless in my town. I felt that doing this drove the point home more than using computer generated images.
Final Thoughts
I came into the start of this semester and this course hopeful. I was hoping to learn something that I didn’t know how to do, that I did, but I wanted to gain more. Although I did enjoy the class I felt that I was a “bothersome” student. I know that I am old school, but I feel that if a student reaches out to a teacher, they shouldn’t be told to contact someone else, the Digital Center. Like I said, I am sure that I was bothersome but I was and am trying to understand what we were doing. I grew up before the internet started and have watched it grow and progress. I can do some things but this was more difficult that I thought it would or should be. Again, I did enjoy the class and I did learn quite a bit so please don’t think that I didn’t.
