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Re: Audio descriptions for foreign language videos on an English language website

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Nov 5, 2020 2:41PM

On 05/11/2020 21:15, Myron To wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working on an English website that will feature some video content in
> Portuguese. The site needs to conform to WCAG 2.0 AA standards, so I
> understand that audio descriptions are required. My question is:
>
> For an American-hosted website, which is only in English, for an
> American-headquartered, global company that plans to feature some video
> content in another language (because this company has offices worldwide),
> how do we handle the audio described video requirement? To me, it doesn't
> make sense to have English audio descriptions for a Portuguese-language
> video, unless you're bilingual in those languages. Should the audio
> descriptions be in Portuguese for an English-language website? Or can the
> audio description be replaced with an English translated and described text
> version of the video?

I would say make the audio description Portuguese as well, and going
beyond the minimum WCAG requirement, also provide a full transcript at
least in English?

P
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