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Re: WCAG 1.2.3 Text Transcripts or Audio Descriptions

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 17, 2012 6:01AM

Randy,
My reading of WCAG is that none of the standards need to modified to support users who are deaf-blind, just that 1.2.8 (requires a text alternative to synchronized media such as a text document which includes the content of the captions and the audio descriptions) is at triple-A and to better encourage the necessary support for these users it would need to be at a higher priority level.

Does that match your interpretation? Are there other success criteria that you're thinking about?

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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