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Clarify descriptive transcripts best and more than just captions #165

Closed shawna-slh closed 3 years ago

shawna-slh commented 3 years ago

From e-mail:

I'm guiding design and content teams on making videos accessible. One of them shared the W3C transcript guidancehttps://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.

shawna-slh commented 3 years ago

Edits are listed in the changelog here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/changelog/#12-april-2021

You can see them in GitHub in "rich diff" here: https://github.com/w3c/wai-media-guide/pull/171/files#diff-c1b685ee00b34f046f46e5c0825fd585c5b93f924bc23d42665e4daf47d9e3b7

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