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Re: Captioning interviews-how to

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From: Brian Richwine
Date: Sep 8, 2015 9:34AM

You can find some great "best practices" for captioning on the captioning
key website at: http://captioningkey.org/



On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Bim Egan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Lisa,
>
> Identifying the speaker by name is likely to be more accessible, especially
> if they are introduced at the start of the interview. It isn't beyond
> reasonable that the interviewee may respond with a question of their own,
> which might cause confusion if only Q and A are used. The caption
> punctuation should make it clear when a question is being asked.
>
> In the WCAG2 Understanding document for the 1.2.2 Captioning (Prerecorded)
> SC, the intent includes the sentence:
> "Captions not only include dialogue, but identify who is speaking and
> include non-speech information conveyed through sound, including meaningful
> sound effects"
> http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/media-equiv-captions.html
>
> HTH,
>
> Bim
>
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Captioning interviews-how to
>
> Hi All,
>
> I didn't see this one on the list, so I thought I would ask.
>
> I need to caption an interview between two people, one is John the
> interviewer and the other is Jane the interviewee. There are just questions
> and answers. In the captions, what is the best way to show who is talking?
> For example, I could do names or just Q/A, examples:
>
> John: Did you go to this place?
> Jane: Yes I did.....
>
> Q; Did you go to this place?
> A: Yes I did.....
>
> I have looked and looked and haven't found any 'best practices'. Did I miss
> something? Advice?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Lisa
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