- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 11:24:11 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 10/05/2021 10:52, Louise Lister wrote: [...] > Finally, has anyone also included links to an audio description on their > webpage? I am thinking that unless non-speech sounds (such as mood > music) convey most of the meaning to suggest we include as much as > possible in the speaker’s script. Just picking up this last point, you basically want/need AD if there's anything that happens visually in the video that is not already conveyed in the audio/narration (or where it's not sufficiently clear from that what is visually happening). If your video player solution allows it, and if it's simple audio description that doesn't require a whole different video (with extra pauses, i.e. with different lengths etc), you may be able to offer a dropdown/option to switch to different audio tracks, one of which would be the AD version. FWIW YouTube recently allowed this option on their videos - as a creator, you can now upload a video, and separate audio tracks, and it's then possible for users to switch between them on the fly - see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaOKSUlf4TM Otherwise (if your player doesn't support it, or if the AD video is of different length because it needed to have additional pauses included), a simple link to the AD version will work. There are fancier alternatives, like dynamically switching out the embedded video for the AD one...but a humble link (close to the non-AD video player itself) should do the job. P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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