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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 6, 2020 5:21AM

On 06/10/2020 11:02, Sudheer Babu wrote:
> Just want to understand how important are the captions/subtitles for music
> videos live/pre-recorded under 1.2.2 – Captions (Pre-recorded) and 1.2.4 –
> Captions (Live).
> If anyone has come across such and can explain what's the ideal expectation
> here for music videos.

The fact that it's a music video doesn't change the fact that there is
spoken (sung) content, and that needs captions. If it was only
instrumental, then yeah, you don't need captions (though ideally, you'd
make it clear - if it isn't already from context - that there is music
playing...it's acceptable to have this mentioned elsewhere in the page,
in the title of the video, or with a single caption "[Music]" or similar).

In terms of examples...well, most youtube videos uploaded by artists
seem to lack explicit captions, but that's really their failing.
Examples of captions done right are, in essence, just the same as
examples of videos with appropriate captions, e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uir2MGC8g8 (just to pull out a random
example).

And as for "how important" ... well, it's the difference between passing
and failing those particular SCs.

P
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