Re: Including audio description in YouTube and Vimeo videos

I think may be a good opportunity for all of us to put in a feature request
for YouTube and Vimeo.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:35 PM Annie Heckel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I've got a quandary that I still haven't found a good solution for: how do
> you incorporate audio description into YouTube and Vimeo videos (especially
> existing ones) so that you can meet WCAG 1.2.5? All the poking around I've
> done hasn't turned up an effective way to include the alternate audio track
> that incorporates audio description, and YouTube, at least, apparently has
> rules against posting separate versions of videos.
>
> Would it be acceptable to create a separate audio-only track that combines
> the audio from the video with the necessary audio description?
>
> Thanks for any insight you all can give.
>
> --
> Annie Heckel
>
> Lead Accessibility Auditor
> Online ADA <https://onlineada.com/>
>


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