[Athen] Is a transcript considered an acceptable alternative for an uncaptioned video

[Teresa Haven]

Thanks, Joe.  I'll amend my earlier comments to include that I was thinking of "canned" content in response to your question, not live content.  What struck me particularly was some current (though dying) methods of teaching at my own institution: there are faculty who literally record themselves talking, with nothing else going on, and students are expected to play those recordings back at a later time to get "the lecture".  In those isolated cases, I don't perceive a transcript as a bad thing, although I know ultimately captions AND a transcript would be better for serving all end users.  For any other situation, though, I agree completely with the opinion that captions need to be provided from the start.
Hope this helps clarify,
Teresa

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Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D.
Supervisor, Alternative Format Services
Disability Resource Center
Arizona State University
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From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Humbert, Joseph A
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 9:20 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: RE: [Athen] Is a transcript considered an acceptable alternative for an uncaptioned video

Thankx all,

According to the Access board it is not:

Paragraph (b) provides that equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. This would require, for example, that if an audio portion of a multi-media production was captioned as required in paragraph (a), the captioning must be synchronized with the audio. (See §1194.23(c)(12) and (e)(3) in the NPRM.)
Comment. Comments from organizations representing persons who are deaf or hard of hearing strongly supported this provision. One commenter from the technology industry raised a concern that this provision would require all live speeches broadcast on the Internet by a Federal agency to be captioned. The commenter noted that an alternative might be to provide a transcript of the speech which could be saved, reviewed, and searched.
Response. This provision uses language that is not substantively different than the WCAG 1.0 and was supported in the WAI comments to the proposed rule. There are new techniques for providing realtime captioning which are supported by new versions of programs like RealAudio. Providing captioning does not preclude posting a transcript of the speech for people to search or download. However, commenters preferred the realtime captioning over the delay in providing a transcript. No substantive changes have been made to this provision in the final rule.
Reference : http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/preamble.htm

I'm going to stick with that as my reasoning.

- Joe

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of John Elmer
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:12 AM
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Subject: RE: [Athen] Is a transcript considered an acceptable alternative for an uncaptioned video

Short answer:  No it is not.  Neither is having an interpreter.

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Subject: [Athen] Is a transcript considered an acceptable alternative for an uncaptioned video

Hi all,

I would like your opinion:

Is a transcript considered an acceptable alternative for an uncaptioned video?

I'm not going to get into the details of why I am bringing up this issue, I would just like people's feedback.  Thankx

Joe Humbert, Assistive Technology and Web Accessibility Specialist
UITS Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington
535 W Michigan St. IT214 E
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Office Phone: (317) 274-4378
Cell Phone: (317) 644-6824
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http://iuadapts.Indiana.edu/<http://iuadapts.indiana.edu/>

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