volunteer hours protocol for the stand

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR OSSD (COMMUNITY SERVICE) HOURS? 

WELL, THE STAND HAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU! 

YOU CAN NOW GET SERVICE HOURS BY...

• Recording voice-overs of articles on the Stand

OR

• Writing alt text for photos on the Stand!

The Stand team hopes to increase the accessibility of our platform to the vision impaired and hard-of-hearing members of our York school community, and generally, provide more ways to keep up with important updates and student works! 

Send us your choice of article to voice-over or choice of images to write alt-text for. 

Contact a Heads of the Stand (gliang24@yorkschool.com, srosenhek23@yorkschool.com, tzaresadeghi24@yorkschool.com, sboyden23@yorkschool.com)! 

• When you get an idea for alt-text approved, we will send you a document to write on. 

• You are to write ONLY on that document. Please tag us when you have finished. 

• When you get your voiceover approved, please record and send it to us. 

• We will determine the number of hours you’re eligible to receive. 

WHAT IS AN ALT-TEXT?

https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images

SERVICE HOUR CONVERSIONS:

1 OSSD HOUR = 3 ARTICLE VOICE-OVERS

OR 

1 OSSD HOUR = 10 ALT-TEXTS 

• You may get more hours! 

  • We take the need to re-record articles into account

  • We will adjust hours depending on article lengths

  • We adjust hours for alt-text and voice over combos 

TIMELINE:

• We will check in on your work if we do not hear from you after two weeks! 

YOU WILL NOT GET ANY OSSD SERVICE HOURS IF YOU...

• Copy and paste alt-text from ChatGPT, Quillbot, or any other AI writing tools

• Copy alt-text from other sources

• Have an automated recording 

VOICE OVER EXAMPLE!

• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TORONTO RAPTORS, PART 2

ALT-TEXT EXAMPLE?

• THE RAPTORS, POST NBA TRADE DEADLINE

LOGGING YOUR HOURS:

• When logging your OSSD hours on Managebac, request the supervisor reviews from either Dr. Downey (gdowney@yorkschool.com) or Ms. Edwards (cedwards@yorkschool.com) 

WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, YORK! 

- THE STAND TEAM