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From: Karl Groves
Date: Mar 6, 2014 9:16AM

Carmen,
This is a good resource:
http://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcripts_on_the_web.html

I think the type of example you provide, where the timestamp interrupts the
transcribed text, is a bad idea. I can imagine there may be certain edge
cases where time information might be useful but generally it is
unnecessary.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Schafer, Carmen < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Hello all,
> I was asked "Do transcripts need to be time-stamped?" (see example below).
> I've been referring to the W3C's WCAG 2.0 guidelines<
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#media-equiv>; but I do not see it as a
> transcript requirement (i.e. time stamp). Is that correct that transcripts
> do not need to be time stamped or am I overlooking it?
>
> Example: Mr. Smith: (00:00:00) This is an example of how a time-stamped
> (00:00:03) document might look once we are finished (00:00:06) with it when
> you request timestamps (00:00:09).
>
> With appreciation,
>
> Carmen Schafer
> University of Missouri | ACT Center
> http://actcenter.missouri.edu<;http://actcenter.missouri.edu/>;
> (573)882-8838
>
> > > >



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