Re: Videos - do we need both captions and transcripts?

My wife's hearing is excellent, but mine is very poor above 2 KHz.
Regardless, we both use the English-language subtitles on movies
and recorded TV shows to help us understand what is being said.

-r

> On Feb 2, 2017, at 12:41, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> 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

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