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Hi, I'm Gosia from Nomensa, and today I'll be talking about alternatives for audio and
video content, such as captions, audio descriptions and transcripts.
Firstly, let's look at captions. Captions are intended to enable those who are deaf
or have hearing impairments to access any auditory information in media with audio content.
Captions are in the same language as the audio content. They include dialogue, and, unlike
subtitles, also identify who is speaking and provide information about significant sound
effects. Captions can be either open (that is always visible) or closed (can be turned
on and off). Captions should be synchronized -- displayed text should appear at the same
time as the relevant audio content.
Now, let's have a look at audio descriptions. Audio descriptions are intended to enable
those who are blind or visually impaired to access visual information in media with visual
content. Audio description provides information about significant visual details that cannot
be understood from the main soundtrack alone. During natural pauses in dialogue or critical
sound elements, important actions, characters, scene changes, and on-screen text
are described.
Finally, let's talk about transcripts.
Transcripts provide a textual version of the audio and video content that can be accessed by anyone.
They should include spoken dialogue, and should
also describe important sound effects and visual details.
To make sure all time-based media content is accessible to the maximum number of people,
we need to provide:
A transcript for all audio-only content;
A transcript or an audio description for video-only content;
Both captions and a transcript (or an audio description) for audio & video content.