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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 4, 2017 12:50PM

Yeah, it does depend on the type of video and the quaity of the transcripts.
I was a huge fan of the Friends transcripts:
http://www.livesinabox.com/friends/season1/101pilot.htm
I definitely enjoyed the series even more after discovering them.

On 2/4/17, KP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> The OP suggested descriptive transcript which would be suitable without AD.
> Purely the spoken words would nit be enough. My favourite example is to use
> the shower scene from Psycho. 5 minutes of zero speech but hugely important
> action. A transcript would not be enough but AD and/or descriptive text
> could be if well written.
>
> Kevin
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 4/02/2017, at 9:40 PM, bobby accessibility
>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Providing Transcript is not sufficient to explain the video, it is helpful
>> for a non sighted users to enjoy the video while listening through audio
>> description. I have read one nice article "Techniques for Creating
>> Accessible Multimedia" published by some Accessibility Expert Sunil
>> Dangwal. In this article he explained everything very nicely he gave very
>> nice example of audio description (after clicking the audio description
>> link redirect you to video) Here is the link:
>> https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2017/01/techniques-creating-accessible-multimedia
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Bob
>>
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