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Date: May 25, 2021 9:51AM

Dear list members,

last week we ran a live event for the GAAD 2021. Live captioning was
provided for the whole event using a separate website due to technical
restriction.
One participant, who identified as being blind, later complained that the
captions weren't accessible to her.
My question is, if we follow the WCAG 2.1, would we have to make the
captions fully accessible to all? I always thought of captions as success
criterion for people who are deaf or hard of hearing (see Success Criterion
1.2.4 https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/captions-live.html
<https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/captions-live.html>).
Though, while there certainly are people who are deaf-blind, I would not
consider captions an option for blind users. But please correct me if I'm
mistaken.

Kind regards

Björn