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Re: closed caption vs. transcript

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 12, 2016 6:25AM

Dan
Captions are primarily intended for people with hering impairments
(giving them access to all the spoken word in the video) where as a
transcript is mprimarily intended for people with visual impairments
(who have access to the dialog, but do not have access to the visual
information, such a text or images displayed on the screen, the names
of the speakers in the video etc.).
Basically you have to evaluate the video to find out what and how much
info is communicated visually that cannot be picked up from listening
to the audio alone.
If there is info, you need to provie it somehow, and a transcript is
the easiest way to do so (there is also audio description, ut there
may be technical difficulties with the player suporting the audio
track, and transcripts are useful to a much larger group of people
e.g. search engines and anyone who needs to reference info from the
video).




On 12/12/16, Swift, Daniel P. < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> We have a video (which has closed captioning) that we want to post. The
> question was raised do we also need a transcript?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan Swift
> Web Technical Specialist
> Web Team Services
> West Chester University
> 610.738.0589
>
> > > > >


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