CLARIFICATION

In your comment below you ask for an exception for video that is added to
make things clearer for those with cognitive disabilities.  

 

Usually, you do not have to caption a video if the information is already
presented on the same page in text. 

So if you are talking about video only - you are ok. 

If it is audio only you are ok. 

The only problem would be if you adding audio-visual multimedia and the
visual is not redundant with the audio. 

What do you have in mind when you say 'add an animation clip'. 

If you really mean just video - and it is an alternate to the text on the
page - then you are all set.  Not caption or description is required and
thus you need no exception.   

 

Can you give us a more specific example of what you mean? 

 

Thanks 

 


Gregg

 



Document: WCAG 2.0 Guidelines
Submitter: Lisa Seeman <lisa@ubaccess.com>     Affiliation: Invited expert
at W3C, UB access
Comment Type: substantive
Location: media-equiv
<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/complete.html#media-equiv>  

Comment:
Comment (including rationale for any proposed change): 

I am concerned that the requirement for real time synrcrization put a lot of
extra work on authors who would like to provide short animations or clips
that help people with learning disabilities fulfill a task. On the whole, a
lot of multi media, especially in education, is good for many learning
disabilities, and these requirements may act as a step backwards for
learning disabilities. 

Proposed Change: 

Make an exception in 1.2 for any content provides extra help visual for
tasks and information that has been described in text else wear.