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Re: Transcript vs. Caption

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 18, 2014 6:15PM

> First, you need to determine what compliance level you are going for. If it is AA then you will need 3 "alternatives" - Captions, Transcript and Audio Descriptions(*).

John, I'm trying to figure out what success criteria you are saying would require transcripts for WCAG Level AA multimedia conformance if audio description was available. My read is that SC 1.2.3 and SC 1.2.5 can both be met via audio description. SC 1.2.2 and 1.2.4 can be met through captions. The requirement for transcripts when audio description and captions is present is something that doesn't appear to be clear.

Jonathan