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From: Keith (mteye)
Date: Jan 20, 2011 1:39PM

OK, I think I have it. The Subtitle area? Definitely accessible. The media
seems largely dialog, and if there was description of visual things. I
didn't catch it. I like the idea of a descriptive voice over in the silent
areas. Possibly a similar to the subtitle captioning that may list the
descriptive text. Or the suggestion of another list responder to use some
type of bullet to indicate a description of a purely video element in the
clip.

from
Keith H



-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Mardahl
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:18 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] YouTube Captioned Video

Keith

The descriptive text for the video from Janet Sylvia is in the
description area for the video - just below it, and right before the
icon for the interactive transcript.

regards, Karen Mardahl

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Keith (mteye) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Was there descriptive audio? I found the captioning, and thought that it's
> an interesting concept. Not sure how to get to any descriptive stuff
> though.
> What am I looking for? I'm not a big Youtube visitor, so it's just
> probably
> my inexperience there.

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-ZFKTGQfo
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