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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
> >
> >