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From: Sumit Patel
Date: Wed, Oct 16 2024 12:56AM
Subject: 1.2.3 WCAG
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*Hai all*,

I am writing to request clarification regarding Success Criterion 1.2.3
Audio Description or Media Alternative of the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.

While I believe I have a clear understanding of the audio description
component of this criterion, I would like to confirm the following:

- Audio Description Requirement: Audio description is necessary when
important information is conveyed on the screen but not in the main audio
track. Is this interpretation correct?

I am also seeking clarification on the text alternative aspect of this
criterion. Specifically, I would like to know if a video with an audio
track should always have a text transcript, regardless of whether the audio
track includes all essential information.

Could you please provide more insight into the requirements for text
transcripts in such scenarios? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.


Regards,

Sumit.

From: L Snider
Date: Wed, Oct 16 2024 8:53AM
Subject: Re: 1.2.3 WCAG
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For people who are fully Deaf-Blind, the only way they can access the
content is through a text transcript (whether WCAG requires it or not, I go
beyond WCAG). That transcript should also include the audio description
parts as well.

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:57 AM Sumit Patel < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> *Hai all*,
>
> I am writing to request clarification regarding Success Criterion 1.2.3
> Audio Description or Media Alternative of the Web Content Accessibility
> Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
>
> While I believe I have a clear understanding of the audio description
> component of this criterion, I would like to confirm the following:
>
> - Audio Description Requirement: Audio description is necessary when
> important information is conveyed on the screen but not in the main
> audio
> track. Is this interpretation correct?
>
> I am also seeking clarification on the text alternative aspect of this
> criterion. Specifically, I would like to know if a video with an audio
> track should always have a text transcript, regardless of whether the audio
> track includes all essential information.
>
> Could you please provide more insight into the requirements for text
> transcripts in such scenarios? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sumit.
> > > > >

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Wed, Oct 16 2024 9:42AM
Subject: Re: 1.2.3 WCAG
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The note attached to 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 encourages use of audio description in
place of a text transcript for videos with meaningful audio and onscreen
content that is not part of the audio.
I have filed an issue to have this note modified or removed as it goes
against the spirit of maximum accessibility for maximum number of people,
especially considering that audio description has no use for deafblind
people:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/4072

From: Geethavani.Shamanna
Date: Wed, Oct 16 2024 10:12AM
Subject: Re: 1.2.3 WCAG
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I completely agree with this recommendation.

We recently had two short videos with on-screen text that wasn't included in the video script and was therefore not part of the videos' audio. We had to recommend adding audio description in order to ensure conformance with SC 1.2.5, while a more complete transcript that also contained the on-screen text would have sufficed.