Re: Including audio description in YouTube and Vimeo videos

Depending on the content, you could:

(1) Include description in the single audio track. This works well for some
content, such as a narrated product demo.

(2) Provide two copies of the video. Provide audio description in the
single audio track of one of the videos. In text near each video, hyperlink
to the other copy.

Solution #2 does not fully meet accessibility technical criteria, but it's
a good functional workaround for the constraints you listed.

Mitchell Evan
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 6:08 PM Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>
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> If you are ok with using a different media player/page for the audio
> described version you might consider YouDescribe.
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> https://youdescribe.org/
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> Jonathan
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> Hi everyone!
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> I've got a quandary that I still haven't found a good solution for: how do
> you incorporate audio description into YouTube and Vimeo videos (especially
> existing ones) so that you can meet WCAG 1.2.5? All the poking around I've
> done hasn't turned up an effective way to include the alternate audio track
> that incorporates audio description, and YouTube, at least, apparently has
> rules against posting separate versions of videos.
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> Would it be acceptable to create a separate audio-only track that combines
> the audio from the video with the necessary audio description?
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> Thanks for any insight you all can give.
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> Annie Heckel
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