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Re: Visual transcript for training videos

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From: glen walker
Date: Jun 26, 2023 8:10AM

If you're asking about an audio description, WCAG 1.2.5, then if your video
is descriptive enough, you won't need to describe what the animation is
doing. That is, if the audio says to click the "Next" button or expand the
"Processes" branch in the tree, then audio description isn't necessary. But
you have to make sure the video uses the exact labels of the elements to
interact with and ideally include the type of element to select (button,
checkbox, tree branch, etc).

You still need captions, WCAG 1.2.2, and possibly a text transcript, WCAG
1.2.3. If the steps described in the video also exist as text on the page,
then that's effectively your "transcript".