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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 5, 2018 8:57AM

> Of course the best result would be for all media to have captions, descriptive transcripts, and (if necessary) audio description - and this is precisely what we recommend.

> Consider someone that is deaf-blind or that requires a text
alternative to multimedia. They currently are provided no alternative
at all under WCAG Level AA. This is hugely impactful to these users.

Yes, so make the transcript requirement Level AA and keep audio description at Level AA as well. I've also noticed some players like YouTube providing the captions in a screen reader consumable way that screen readers could access -- so a requirement to use closed captions in a way that is programmatically available would also be good for some people who are blind and hard of hearing who may be able to get some audio but need captions to fill in the words that are not understandable. Since there are different degrees of vision and hearing loss having intermediate options that allow for flexibility for any formats is optimal -- but likely Level AAA for programmatically determinable captions.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
Chief Accessibility Officer
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