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From: Bossley, Pete
Date: Jul 14, 2016 4:06PM

Vanessa,
I would suggest that getting in the flow of captioning everything is a good practice if you can make that happen.
Given that WCAG 1.2.4 requires captions for live events and that it is at base level A, and the clear precedent from the Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights is to expect WCAG 2.0 level AA, it is risky for institutions to decide to only caption things on request.
Not everyone that uses captions will request them in advance and there is an argument that not captioning a live event subjects a person with a disability to discrimination because they would have to wait for the captions to be added in order to enjoy the benefits of the event.