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

Sean Murphy (seanmmur) writes:
> Don't forget, people use caption when the language being spoken is not their prime language, so they can follow the content. 
> 

Actually this use case is for what's called "subtitles," which differ
from captions by not including information about key, nonverbal sonic
events.

We spent some time during the MAUR 1.0 process exploring whether we
could somehow combine subtitle and caption, but that effort was
categorically rejected. It seems the subtitle using public would not
accept textual information about key sonic events, which they're assumed
to be able to hear perfectly well.

Best,

Janina

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net] 
> Sent: Friday, 3 February 2017 8:34 AM
> To: Nimisha Joshi <nimisha.joshi@northwestern.edu>
> Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Videos - do we need both captions and transcripts?
> 
> In order to support as many users as possible, yes.
> 
> You might also note that transcripts are sometimes referenced by persons without disabilities who want to speed read through content--or to skim the content. This use case came up during our discussions in the HTML Working Group prior to the release of HTML 5.0. Let me know if you need a reference to those minutes, and I'll dig them up for you. This use case isn't noted in the Media Accessibility User Requirements (MAUR) note simply because it's not an accessibility use case in the traditional sense.
> 
> Janina
> 
> Nimisha Joshi writes:
> > Going by this, we DO need transcripts for all audio video content, right?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Nimisha
> > 
> > From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
> > Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 2:41 PM
> > To: Nimisha Joshi <nimisha.joshi@northwestern.edu>
> > Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> > Subject: Re: Videos - do we need both captions and transcripts?
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.w3.org_TR_medi
> > a-2Daccessibility-2Dreqs_-23transcripts&d=CwIBAw&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ue
> > u5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=8bgih609kFGNd3KTkZvS4SD8-_hY6QELODIGc63wIuE
> > &m=uPDIur_EoYK7Iw8mT-FYh7DSzJhX4R9KHvIkQZdqkho&s=wBzST77c7L3EZGQmvUrI3
> > IPpNEDHSEHVHBWou1ygaZc&e=
> > 
> > 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.hhs.gov_web_section-2D508_making-2Dfiles-2Daccessible_checklist_html_index.html-3Flanguage-3Des&d=CwIBAw&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ueu5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=8bgih609kFGNd3KTkZvS4SD8-_hY6QELODIGc63wIuE&m=uPDIur_EoYK7Iw8mT-FYh7DSzJhX4R9KHvIkQZdqkho&s=c8imw3CZmw7WrZWTSwzLD855OszQZMMg0s5Q7PGxQNw&e= >) 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
> > 
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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

Received on Monday, 6 February 2017 14:41:08 UTC