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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Jul 29, 2015 7:20AM

Just as so many automated tools might tell us if an image on a website or in a document has an alt-text, I've yet to see such a tool tell us how *good* or meaningful the alt-text is. The same goes here with both captioning and audio-description. Even if the presence of either could be tested for, by an automated tool, how good the quality of the captioning or the audio-description could really only be done manually, by viewing and listening to the video or multimedia. At least, it seems to me.

Gary