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Re: Captions and transcripts

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From: Randy Pope
Date: Jan 6, 2012 11:21AM

For the deaf-blind people who cannot see or hear, that recommendation would
be suitable if the caption is accessible for those who read the content in
braille and not voice. Otherwise a transcript is needed in addition to the
caption on the video. I know this is a lot of work but most website are not
using the technology that will enable the braille readers to read the
caption on the screen plus the visual description.

Then there is another situation when the video is done in American Sign
Language (ASL) but not in caption for those who don't know ASL. So this
bring this question: should these videos be in caption too?

Since there are some deaf whose first language is ASL and do not understand
English in written form, should there be an alternative format such a video
in ASL that interpret the content on the web? After all there are language
programs that translate English into their native language but nothing to
translated it into ASL.

Just some thoughts I like to throw. Take care.

With Warm Regards,
Randy Pope