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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Nov 1, 2011 4:00PM

There is a company that does real-time captioning on news videos, like
you are looking for Randy. I am forgetting the name, but it is
definitely not low-cost. You have to use their player, which from the
demo it was either not accessible, or just the play/pause button. So
the captions would not be accessible to screen readers.

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Ryan E. Benson



On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Randy Pope < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> That's true, Jared.  The ideal system is to have the caption streamline into
> the user's buffer in the device and the braille reader can read off the
> buffer at their preferred reading speed.  If one would notice, more and more
> are using these videos without supplying an alternative text version.
>
> So this bring us to the Section 508 issue.  Is the websites legally
> responsible for providing an alternative text?  Often the deaf-blind people
> are left out in the rulemaking process.  On the other hand it is very
> difficult to find them.
>
> With Warm Regards,
> Randy Pope
>
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