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EWG:Draft Oct 26 Captions and Transcripts

6-A - Captions and Transcripts

This page is the text proposed in the Nov Plenary Meeting.

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Materials containing video and/or audio, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, must comply with the following:

1. Materials containing prerecorded audio information, and no original video or other additional time-based content must provide a separate transcript of the audio information.

2. Materials containing prerecorded video with concurrent audio information must provide synchronized captions.

3. Materials containing real-time audio, with or without video, must provide synchronized real-time captions.


Notes from November plenary:

Changed the "All materials" to remove "all".

States looking for exemption language so that it's clear what is covered otherwise all states will create their own rule.

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