Re: Background animation on a page needs separate audio track?

Louise,

It may not be a relief.  Looking at your example, it seems to my 
subjective opinion that your video snippet is meaningful, and therefore 
needs to be accessible with closed captions and a video description.

My way to interpret this is to browse with images turned off.  If I 
subjectively feel that I am missing something valuable, I must make it 
accessible.

Cheers,
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Louise Lister wrote on 8/4/2021 2:16 AM:
>
>
> Fab, thanks Patrick. That's a relief!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> Sent: 04 August 2021 10:14
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> Subject: Re: Background animation on a page needs separate audio track?
>
> On 04/08/2021 10:04, Louise Lister wrote:
>
> > I have a question about background animations on landing pages and
> > what we need to have in place.
> >
> > Iā€™m aware of the pause/stop/hide requirement
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> > and I need to sort out.
> >
> > In the case where we have a short video loop, do we also need to
> > provide an auditory description to be accessible? These are quite new
> > animations and have triggered this accessibility check ā€œ*object link
> > to multimedia file require equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or
> > auditory descriptions of the visual track).ā€* I would really
> > appreciate to know whether I should ignore or try and accommodate this
> > check in some way to meet Level A and AA standards.
>
> If the video loops are essentially decorative/visual "fluff"/mood, 
> it's on par with decorative images. The latter don't necessarily need 
> a text alternative, and decorative videos (that don't actually convey
> content/information) don't need a media alternative/audio description
> (1.2.1)
>
> As with decorative images, there is obviously an argument that if the 
> videos do convey a certain mood/feel, that should also come through 
> somehow (in the copywriting/tone of the content etc), but that's more 
> subjective to decide on.
>
> P
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> Patrick H. Lauke
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