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

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From: Dean.Vasile@outlook.com
Date: Mar 22, 2024 9:25AM

Hello there, Doug.
Personally my opinion is that it should be in a transcript.
Or like you said in the audio description
However, as you said sided people will most likely be able to read the text but people reading a transcript won’t know it’s there unless it is in the transcript
Dean Vasile


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> On Mar 22, 2024, at 11:16 AM, Hayman, Douglass < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> My thoughts are audience-based and not so much which regulation element says to do what.
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> A person who is blind interacting with the text displayed on screen would need audio description if that onscreen text was meaningful/essential content.
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> A deaf but sighted person wouldn't need it in the closed captions.
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> 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.
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> These able player examples help imagine ways to do the process:
> https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer/demos/
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> Doug Hayman
> IT Accessibility Coordinator
> Information Technology
> Olympic College
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> Hi,
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> 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/
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> 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?
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> Thank you,
> Mike
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> Mike Warner
> Director of IT Services
> MindEdge Learning
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