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Re: Question regarding live caption

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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: May 25, 2021 9:55AM

There are others who may also benefit from captions, people learning English, people in a noisy environment, etc.

When done correctly, accessibility benefits everybody!

Dave



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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://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2FWCAG21%2FUnderstanding%2Fcaptions-live.html&amp;data%7C01%7Cdavid.b.andrews%40state.mn.us%7Cb6f4dca1c34b41f2a49208d91f94fcf2%7Ceb14b04624c445198f26b89c2159828c%7C0%7C1%7C637575547119814171%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=CSBJqrnIYIvhHqF31ue86s2zqlMEhLIkhTFSy6I3cc4%3D&amp;reserved=0
<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2FWCAG21%2FUnderstanding%2Fcaptions-live.html&amp;data%7C01%7Cdavid.b.andrews%40state.mn.us%7Cb6f4dca1c34b41f2a49208d91f94fcf2%7Ceb14b04624c445198f26b89c2159828c%7C0%7C1%7C637575547119814171%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=CSBJqrnIYIvhHqF31ue86s2zqlMEhLIkhTFSy6I3cc4%3D&amp;reserved=0>).
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