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Re: Does audio used as an alternative format to dialogue also need a transcript.

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From: Karl Brown
Date: Jan 29, 2018 1:45AM

Because the text is already on the page, it serves as a text equivalent for
the non-text content, so you won't need another transcript. If anything the
text that has the audio description is already the transcript.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Tim Harshbarger <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> No, you shouldn't need a transcript.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Jackson, Derek
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Does audio used as an alternative format to dialogue
> also need a transcript.
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I have an interesting question about audio clips in dialogue/scripts. We
> have a text that with some dialogue that is set off as a block quote.
> Clicking on that block quote will start an audio clip of the dialogue
> spoken by an actor in an audio player or new browser window. Would that
> audio clip then require a transcript even though all of the dialogue is
> already printed in the main body of the text? Nothing is presented in the
> audio clip that is not already in the block quote.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derek
>
>
>
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