Re: Including audio description in YouTube and Vimeo videos

Apple does separate videos on YouTube despite the rules.

Audio Described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYUnd64BUM

Undescribed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whioDJ8doYA

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 7:23 AM Crystal Tenan <cltenan@ncsu.edu> wrote:

> I think may be a good opportunity for all of us to put in a feature
> request for YouTube and Vimeo.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:35 PM Annie Heckel <annieh@onlineada.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Would it be acceptable to create a separate audio-only track that
>> combines the audio from the video with the necessary audio description?
>>
>> Thanks for any insight you all can give.
>>
>> --
>> Annie Heckel
>>
>> Lead Accessibility Auditor
>> Online ADA <https://onlineada.com/>
>>
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