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Re: video transcripts for talking heads: need to besynchronized?

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From: John Foliot
Date: Apr 10, 2015 2:19PM

Mike Warner wrote:
>
> The new ones will have captions, and there won't be any action, just
> slides and the like, so you're not looking at the same person's face
> for five minutes.
>

The addition of "...slides and the like..." will likely warrant audio
description or similar to be WCAG compliant. While captions will benefit the
deaf and hard-of-hearing user, the content on those slides will either need to
be described to the non-sighted user (AA conformance), or a full transcript
that includes text equivalents of the slides must be provided (A conformance).

WCAG:
SC 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded): An alternative
for time-based media or audio description of the prerecorded video content is
provided for synchronized media, except when the media is a media alternative
for text and is clearly labeled as such. (Level A)

SC 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded): Audio description is provided for
all prerecorded video content in synchronized media. (Level AA)

JF