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From: Priti Rohra
Date: Jun 27, 2023 5:37AM

Hi Chris,

I agree with all the points that Glen mentioned. Just would like to add
that as a person with visual impairment, descriptions such as "rectangle
box surrounding the Next button" don't provide me with any valuable
information. The box is there to catch users attention and for us it is
best done in the form of speech , i.e. identifying the name and type of the
element!

Best Regards
Priti Rohra


On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 7:41 PM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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".
> > > > >