[en] Transcripts

Hi there,

I'm guiding design and content teams on making videos accessible.  One of them shared the W3C transcript guidance<https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/transcripts/#introduction>.

Though I appreciated how the document is structured and the logical approach to breaking up transcripts into basic, descriptive and interactive, I had to spend some time with my teams explaining how creating a transcript solely from captions could exclude a good portion of the people who rely on transcripts.

I think the issue is that the document doesn't draw enough of a distinction between basic and descriptive transcripts and when one should be used over the other.

To me, the concern is that the basic transcript is presented in a way that teams new to accessibility could assume that the basic transcript meets baseline conformance and does not exclude a good portion of non-visual and neurodiverse viewers.

Apologies if I missed something in the document that addresses this concern.

Best Regards,
Joel Isaac |
Design Accessibility Lead,|
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