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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 7, 2020 4:15PM

On 07/04/2020 22:06, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Glen,
>
> Thank you for the links. Since I'm working with an automatic caption file, I'm hopeful to find some guidance on punctuation. There are a lot of repeated words that I'm fighting with Microsoft Word about and some other sentence/grammatical stuff, but again, not sure how much of that kind of thing, if any, is mine to edit/correct. Again, thanks for the link resources.

There's no hard requirement in terms of WCAG prescribing how much/little
editing you're supposed to do. Nominally, all that is required is a
transcript, and there's an implied ask that it be accurate enough to
convey the same information as the audio/sound/on-screen actions
(because note that a transcript, as opposed to captions, needs to convey
both the audio and and any relevant visual information). Beyond that
(and into the realm of best practice, rather than pure WCAG compliance),
it's up to you how much/little editing you do. As long as you don't
drastically change the meaning, a bit of editing is probably appropriate
(removing filler/pause words), but I'd stay away from outright
rephrasing/paraphrasing things.

P
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