Re: Including audio description in YouTube and Vimeo videos
Annie Heckel <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Apr 2020 11:55:58 -0700
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Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'm looking at them to figure out what might work (it's for a client my team is helping to become accessible). YouDescribe, in particular, is a pretty interesting resource that could streamline their process of trying to make already-published videos fully accessible. -Annie On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:50 AM Amber Holladay < [email protected]> wrote: > Apple does separate videos on YouTube despite the rules. > > Audio Described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYUnd64BUM > > Undescribed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whioDJ8doYA > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 7:23 AM Crystal Tenan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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/> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Crystal L. Tenan* >> IT Accessibility Coordinator >> NC State University >> Office of Information Technology >> Outreach, Communications & Consulting >> >> P: (919) 513-4087 >> Campus Box 7109 >> [email protected] >> accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu >> >> Pronouns: She/Her/Hers >> >> >> >> -- Annie Heckel Lead Accessibility Auditor Online ADA <https://onlineada.com/>