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Re: Preferred Format for Text Transcript

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: May 25, 2010 11:18AM

Janet,

In this situation, either might be OK. I think the big difference would
be the structure. With HTML, you can structure the document (give it
headings, unordered lists, etc) that a screen reader or braille display
will interpret for the user. You can give text files some structure
also. However, the user needs to interpret it.

My opinion is that HTML would make it easier to communicate accurately
the intent of the content.




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Subject: [WebAIM] Preferred Format for Text Transcript


For our web-based captioned video, we also provide links to screen
reader accessible HTML files for both Text Transcripts and Descriptive
Video.

Someone has suggested .txt may be preferred over .html

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Janet Sylvia
University of Georgia