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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 3, 2018 8:49PM

Alan,

It seems like there may be some confusion about the captions/transcript you are talking about. I may misunderstand your question -- but based on what I think you are saying If you have audio and text on the screen that the screen reader can access then there is no requirement to make the audio into text for a screen reader user under the current standards.

The group of users that is likely to have the issue is users who are deaf or hard of hearing including people who are deafblind who may not have access to what is spoken in the audio that is different than what is on-screen. For this group of users they will want synchronized text (if the visual and audio are synchronized) or transcript (if synchronization is not used)

If the content is slide based with next buttons without any real synchronization -- text is on-screen and there is audio then you likely can make a case to display a pop-up with the audio as text presented in a box that doesn't cover the visual content.

Again, I can't say for sure without looking at your situation -- so these are just some initial thoughts based on what you describe.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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Level Access, inc. (formerly SSB BART Group, inc.)
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