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Re: Video captioning when the video contains text on screen

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 1, 2016 11:55AM

Where I work, my lead can make authoritative decisions. He has interpreted
508 and WCAG 2.0 as "if the only thing said is what's on the screen, then
they can act as the captions. If the speaker goes off on a tangent or
expands upon a point, captions are required throughout the video." We
unofficially are fine if the speaker throws in a verb periodically to make
it a complete sentence.

Now this may not fly with everybody, but this is the position we adopted

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Ryan E. Benson

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Preast, Vanessa < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Could you direct me to resources that could help me address the following
> situation?
>
> We have a video that is mostly like a PowerPoint presentation that has
> most of the spoken content already on the screen. However, sometimes the
> speaker says some stuff slightly differently.
>
> What are the captioning requirements and recommendations at a WCAG 2.0 AA
> level when the video has text on screen, but no caption file, and the
> spoken text is mostly, but not always the same as what is already on the
> screen?
>
> Do we need to add a caption file or transcript to the video?
> If we do caption it, do we just write out the spoken content, or do we
> also include the written content (even when spoken and on-screen content
> are already the same)?
>
> Thanks,
> Vanessa
>
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