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Re: - does unspoken on-screen text in videos need to be in thecaptions and transcript?

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From: Hayman, Douglass
Date: Mar 22, 2024 9:15AM

My thoughts are audience-based and not so much which regulation element says to do what.

A person who is blind interacting with the text displayed on screen would need audio description if that onscreen text was meaningful/essential content.

A deaf but sighted person wouldn't need it in the closed captions.

A deaf-blind user would likely need that text as audio description and rather than listening to the video and would likely use a refreshable Braille device so perhaps needs both the closed captions and the audio description.

These able player examples help imagine ways to do the process:
https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/


Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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