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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 1, 2011 1:30PM

Agree that providing a transcript is a fine solution. However, this is also good work for a machine. I have an old example from a few years ago (http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/accessiblevideo/) which is a Flash video with some additional player controls, including a "show transcript" button. A braille user can click that button to view a transcript of the video's captions, and the transcript is generated automatically from the TTML captions.

It isn't really that complex to get a simple text stream. However, it is still not an automatic process that players often provide.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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