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Re: w3.beta Comments for discussion

From: Liam McGee <liam.mcgee@communis.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:31:59 +0100
Message-ID: <4A97C02F.7070700@communis.co.uk>
To: catherine <ecrire@catherine-roy.net>
CC: "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
catherine wrote:

> "Just as images aren't available to people who can't see, audio files 
> aren't available to people who can't hear. Providing a text transcript 
> makes the audio information accessible to people who are deaf or hard of 
> hearing, as well as to search engines and other technologies that can't 
> hear. Services are available to produce text transcripts in HTML format. 
> They are relatively inexpensive and easy to use."

Nicely put. This is a much better segue from the alt text example.
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