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Re: Styling of video captions

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From: glen walker
Date: Apr 13, 2018 11:06AM

From a usability perspective, I agree with you, but what they have now is
not an accessibility issue, although the translucent background could be
distracting for cognitive impairments.

I like it when videos let me choose the captioning colors, or at least give
me a few choices. Would that be an option for you? Could you have an
opaque and translucent option for captions? For readability, it might be
better to use less technical terms and call the options 'solid background'
and 'see through background', or something like that.

Glen


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Steve Green <
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> One of my clients is adding captions to the videos on their website and
> they sent me some examples. The captions are white text on a mid-grey
> translucent background so the video content shows through a little. The
> colour contrast is fine but I feel that the translucency reduces the
> readability a little because the background colour changes both within a
> frame and over time. It's difficult for me to be objective now because I
> can't help looking for a problem, and I don't know if it will be a problem
> in practice.
>
> I told the client I would prefer the text to be on a solid background but
> they say the styling is fixed - they are using Vimeo. I can't find anything
> in WCAG that specifies any aspect of the styling of captions. Does anyone
> know of any requirements in WCAG or any other standard? Has anyone done any
> user testing with different caption styles or had any feedback from users?
>
> Regards,
> Steve Green
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