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From: Shawn Henry (uiAccess projects)
Date: Aug 1, 2017 1:40PM

Many reasons and situations for people to use a transcript instead of, or in addition to, a video.
* People who are deaf or hard of hearing.
* People who won't spend the time to listen to the audio or watch the video, but will skim a transcript.
* People who have difficulty processing auditory information, for example, because of cognitive disability.
* People who are not proficient in the language who find it easier to read than listen.
* People with low bandwidth connections who don't want to download the larger audio or video file.
* People who pay for bandwidth usage and thus don't want to download the larger audio or video file. This is often an issue with phones and other mobile devices [for some users still].
* People who cannot play the audio because they are in a noisy environment and they can't hear it.
* People who cannot play the audio because they are in a quiet environment and they don't want to disturb others.
-- from <http://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcripts_on_the_web.html#benes>;

Personally, I almost always use the transcript because it's faster and easier to process information than from a video.

Best,
~Shawn
<http://www.uiaccess.com/profile.html>;



On 7/25/2017 5:53 PM, Maya Sellon wrote:
> Hi all,
> A question popped up in a project I'm working on that I answered with "it
> depends", but I wanted to ask you all as well: how do people (especially
> screen reader users) use video transcripts? Do they use them instead of the
> video? Or to somehow support the video after they've listened to it?
>
> I pointed out that it's not just low vision users who use transcripts and
> that I think it really depends on the task the user is carrying out, but
> would be very interested and grateful to hear from this group.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Maya
>