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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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Hi,

I thought that I saw once where any on-screen text in a video that's not spoken needs to be in the captions, but I can't find it. So maybe my memory is faulty? The W3C example video does not have the on-screen text at the beginning of the video in the caption. The link for that video is
https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/captions/

Is it required to put on-screen text from a video in the captions and this is just a bad example, or is it not required? Maybe it's just good practice?

Thank you,
Mike

Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge Learning