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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/NCI) [E]
Date: May 27, 2021 8:26AM

If the captioning is a text representation of the spoken word, no more no less, what is the value of them to a person who is blind or partially sighed and already listening to the presentation? Wouldn't it be redundant to hear both the speaker and a ScreenReader-read rendition of the captioning.

If the person is DeafBlind, then the web version of the captioning (as opposed to the captions integrated into a platform such as Adobe Connect, WebEx, or Zoom) should be accessible to someone then using, say, a refreshable braille reader. But that is a good question for those captioning providers and the web platforms (e.g., StreamText and CaptionedText) – are those web sites WCAG-conformant?

Although a recorded video could have an accompanying DESCRIPTIVE transcript, one which includes both the captioning and the audio-description, in live time, wouldn't a person need to request a reasonable accommodation – in addition to viewing/reading the captioning, I would like a real-time describer?

Gary

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