- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:41:42 -0500
- To: Nimisha Joshi <nimisha.joshi@northwestern.edu>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
It's generally expected that people requiring captions aren't hearing audio content, but are seing visual content. Therefore, transcript is specified to support those who neither see nor hear: http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs/#transcripts Nimisha Joshi writes: > Hello All, > > I have a super elementary question, what is the difference between prerecorded and synchronized video? From what I can gather, it seems there is a level of interaction with synchronized video, like online tutorials or eLearning. Am I close? > > Transcript are for prerecorded (according to this Section 508 checklist item 2.2<https://www.hhs.gov/web/section-508/making-files-accessible/checklist/html/index.html?language=es>) and captions are for synchronized (checklist item 2.3). > > If this is irrelevant and you advise using captions for all video content (except for a silent movie, of course) or if we need both captions and transcripts? > > Thank you again for all your advice. > > Thanks, > NJ > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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