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Re: Question regarding live caption

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From: Date: May 25, 2021 10:32AM

Okay, thanks. I think I didn't make my point clear enough. The question
wasn't about who benefits from captions, but whether the captions itself
would have to be technically fully accessible.

The participant who identified as being blind said that the captions, who
were presented to her using a web browser, weren't accessible to her using
a screen reader. We asked a service provider to do the live captioning and
they used their own specific web-based software. Their regular clients are
people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Their web-based software allows to
change the font, font size, colour etc. Text is presented as plain text
using HTML paragraphs. But for example, you cannot change the reading order
(text scrolls from bottom to top), which can cause problems in case you use
a screen reader. Also the content refreshed regularly, which could be
announced to users of screen readers.

So I think we should do some more techical testing on these. But it also
depends on how proficient the screen reader users are in operating their
software.

Regards

Björn


Am Di., 25. Mai 2021 um 18:26 Uhr schrieb Lucy GRECO < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> Hello
>
> I WOULD BE SUPPRIZED TO FIND THE CAPTION WEB SITE NOT ACCESSABLE. THAT
> STRIKES ME AS NOT LIKELY HAVE YOU CHECKED THAT WEB SITE YOUR SELF MAYBE IT
> JUST NEEDED BETTTER DIRECTIONS FOR A SCREENREADER USER AFTER ALL CAPTIONS
> ARE TEXT AREN'T THEY
> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
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>
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:17 AM Polling, Neil < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Additionally captions can be used in such a way that they aren't just
> > showing what people are saying, but also include descriptions of what is
> > happening. So if there are captions that are providing context that
> would
> > normally be provided through vision, if those captions aren't also in
> some
> > way being read aloud then the overall experience would be inaccessible to
> > those with vision impairments.
> >
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