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RE: Reality Check (was RE: accessibility for deaf)

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From: Joe Clark
Date: May 3, 2006 12:40PM

>From: "zara" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>[...]
>WCAG requires providing a text equivalent for every non-text element
>(including audio and video). And WCAG defines text equivalents as
>"written so that they convey all essential content".

I.e., a transcript (or captioning for video).

>So your accommodation would need to provide equivalent information
>(as in equal value). I would hazard to say that a word for word
>transcript that is difficult to understand would probably not be of
>much value to anyone.

I would hazard to say there are scarcely any such examples. If we
can't understand it in writing, we won't be able to understand it in
audio, either. In that case, both groups are equally disadvanteged;
more likely, the podcaster will have enough functioning brain cells
to realize the recording is not fit for broadcast.

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