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Re: question about audio descriptions of video

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 8, 2011 2:09PM

I'd agree about the audio being unnecessary. It would be good to put a single caption at the beginning showing the musical eighth note to indicate music, but that's about all. For audio description, I think that a text description of the content would be just as useful since the video is not synchronized to audio in ways that impact the meaning. However, it looks like your standards require audio description. WCAG 2.0 would allow the text description, but you might need to do the description.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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