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From: Lisa Snider
Date: Aug 1, 2017 2:13PM

Plus I also have seen that search engines like the transcripts, gives them something to spider! So that is always good to use in business cases and ROI.

Cheers

Lisa

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> On Aug 1, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Shawn Henry (uiAccess projects) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> 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
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