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From: L Snider
Date: Sep 8, 2015 11:28AM

Hi Brian,

Thanks, appreciate that resource.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Brian Richwine < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf
> > Of L Snider
> > Sent: 06 September 2015 23:52
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > 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
> > > > > > at
> > http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >