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A magnifying glass icon is used to link to the search page of a Web site. A screen reader identifies the button as a link and speaks the text alternative, "Search."
A bar chart compares how many widgets were sold in June, July, and August. The short label says, "Figure one - Sales in June, July and August." The longer description identifies the type of chart, provides a high-level summary of the data comparable to that available from the chart, and provides the data in a table.
The link to an audio clip says, "Chairman's speech to the assembly." A link to a text transcript is provided immediately after the link to the audio clip.
The link to an audio file says, "Beethoven's 5th Symphony performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra."
An animation shows how a car engine works. There is no audio and the animation is part of a tutorial that describes how an engine works. All that is needed is a description of the image. From "How car engines work: Internal combustion" [Use this instead of Example 3?]
Ednote: Examples to be developed: a live radio stream and a live webcam.
Ednote: Even though there are instances where captions and audio descriptions are not required, this version of Guideline 1.2 does not attempt to address the variations. Instead, it assumes more detail is included in the techniques documents and that policy makers will clarify when captions and audio descriptions are required.
Transcript of audio from the first few minutes of, "Teaching Evolution Case Studies, Bonnie Chen" (copyright WGBH and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc.)
Describer: A title, "Teaching Evolution Case Studies. Bonnie Chen." Now, a teacher shows photographs.
Bonnie Chen: These are all shot at either the Everglades...for today you just happen to be a species of wading bird that has a beak like this."
Describer: wooden tongue depressors
[will non-Americans know "wooden tongue depressors?"]
A video clip shows how to tie a knot. The captions read, "(music)
USING ROPE TO TIE KNOTS
WAS AN IMPORTANT SKILL
FOR THE LIKES OF SAILORS, SOLDIERS, AND WOODSMEN."
From Sample Transcript Formatting by Whit Anderson
Ednote: Examples to be developed: an animation with soundtrack of music with lyrics, an interactive slideshow, an animation with musical soundtrack.
(didn't finish these)
video-only: Need to clarify that it is not a Web page (to address issue 792)
audio description - Additional audio narration that explains important details that cannot be understood from the main soundtrack alone. During pauses in dialog, audio description provide information about actions, characters, scene changes and on-screen text to people who are blind or visually impaired.
extended audio descriptions...
captions - A synchronized transcript of dialogue and important sound effects. Captions provide access to multimedia for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
multimedia - contains both audio and video
non-text content - @@
transcript - @@
success criterion: ad provided for prerecorded multimedia.
live audio-only or video-only - just a text description (no need for )
live audio-only - feed for president's message - transcript available afterward. if recording of audio-only web cast posted on site - prerecorded. if one-time real-time event doesn't matter.
live program streamed live - level 1 description of event?, pres candidate debate=if covered by some legislation, follow that legislation or policy
live program stored and streamed later - audio-only = transcript, multimedia = captions, AD (if necessary), video-only
pre-recorded program streamed as first broadcast -
pre-recorded program stored and streamed later
[How address talking heads? e.g., the US presedential debates. Which would they fall under?]