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EWG:Draft Oct 26 Video Description

6-B - Video Description

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

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Proposed Text:

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

1. Materials containing prerecorded video and no original audio or other additional time-based content must provide either a separate text description of the video or provide an additional audio track to convey the informational content of the video.

2. When the visual informational content is not conveyed through other means, materials containing prerecorded video with concurrent audio must provide synchronized video descriptions, or when space is not available in the main program audio for synchronized video descriptions, a separate text description of the video content must be provided.

3. Materials containing live video must provide synchronized video descriptions in real time to convey any informational content of the video that is not conveyed through other means.

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