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From: Date: May 27, 2021 8:39AM

Hi,

I talked to the person who mentioned to us that she would like to see
additional support and accessible captions for the live event. She said
that it would be exhausting for her to listen to different speakers for
three hours. Sighted users would be able to use visual cues like the
presentation, which obviously isn't available to blind people. So one
way to get around this is to provide accessible presentations in advance
of the presentations.

Though I totally understand her point, this hasn't that much to do with
following the WCAG. It is an example where accessibility standards don't
help much, because it might be accessible according to WCAG, but still
unusable for some.

I also believe that web platforms of captioning providers should be
fully accessible. Because if you've ever listend to somebody's
screenreader, this is totally different in terms of speed than any
presenter. Sighted people might relax during a presentation, but still
be able to re-enter by using the visual presentation on screen, catching
up with what was said. A blind person is only able to listen actively,
when she/he is inattentive, she/he looses some of the content. Having an
accessible transcript, blind people would be able to catch up with what
was said using their screenreader with the transcript.

Again, I'm talking about real-time captioning of a live event, not a
recorded video. And I also can only imagine what would be helpful for
deaf-blind people.

Best

    Björn

Am 27.05.21 um 16:26 schrieb Morin, Gary (NIH/NCI) [E]:
>
> 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
>
> https://streamtext.net/ <https://streamtext.net/>
>
> https://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx
> <https://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx>
>
> https://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx?EventIDG91705&CustomerID21
> <https://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx?EventIDG91705&CustomerID21>
>
> https://www.streamtext.net/player?event­A
> <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event­A>
>
>