RE: CLARIFICATION

Are these video only?  Or video with audio?  

 


Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
The Player for my DSS sound file is at http://tinyurl.com/dho6b
<http://tinyurl.com/cmfd9>  

 

 


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From: Lisa Seeman [mailto:lisa@ubaccess.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:19 PM
To: Gregg Vanderheiden
Cc: public-wcag-teama@w3.org
Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION

Sometimes the text may say something that most people find easy and "
obvious"

 

such as: "fill in your social security number"

 

A video clip may show you how to find your  social security number,  what it
might be written on etc.

 

this clip is for extra information for  people with non localized LD. It can
be really easy to make using a simple web cam. A large website could have a
library of small clips that take you through important tasks or information.

These clips make the tasks and information accessible.

 

Making them require synchronized captions mean that they are suddenly
burdensome to make. Hence people will make less of them, hence accessibility
will be defeated.

 

All the best

Lisa 

 

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Gregg Vanderheiden <mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu>  

To: 'Lisa Seeman' <mailto:lisa@ubaccess.com>  

Cc: public-wcag-teama@w3.org 

Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:28 AM

Subject: 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.