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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Apr 10, 2015 1:55PM

Ah, right – on the current ones, you did say that, didn't you? But, in the new ones, you mentioned there might be slides or something else interspersed. So, there could be more visual content included then, couldn't there? So, Audio-Description could be appropriate or simply an increased/improved narration which takes the visual content and the needs of potential viewers into account. Just some Friday afternoon pondering ☺


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From: Mike Warner [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:47 PM
To: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Cc: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] video transcripts for talking heads: need to be synchronized?

Hi Gary,
since the videos are just single-person talking heads with no changes in the scene, we don't need audio descriptions...based on my understanding of the regs, anyway.

Mike
2015-04-10 15:00 GMT-04:00 Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >>:
IF a major overhaul of the videos is in the works for the near-future, then holding off might well make sense, time and money-wise. What about audio-description? Will you be able to work that in at the same time, bringing the videos up to a more full level of accessibility and conformance while you have the opportunity?

Gary
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From: Mike Warner [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >]
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 2:19 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] video transcripts for talking heads: need to be synchronized?
Thanks all. I agree with everyone. We do have transcripts available via a link right below the video player, but they're not synced for captions, which, apparently, follows the WCAG rules for this type of video. I also agree that, since we have the scripts for the videos, the hard work is done. I've been using SyncWords to generate caption files for the videos on our corporate site that don't have them already, but we've got hundreds of talking heads videos with no good way to automatically distinguish them from the rest of the videos in our courses. SyncWords has a great API that I could leverage to automate this, but my boss says that we will replace those videos by the end of the Summer with better versions that include slides or something else interspersed. As such, they will require captions and we will create them. Given that we'll be replacing the videos, I can see his point of not spending the time to go though all of our courses to find and process the videos.

Thanks again for the input, everyone!

Mike