Ten Reasons to Describe Your Web Videos
- Video Description helps to focus on details that may go missing, even for sighted viewers.
- Learn names and labels that you wouldn’t get from the dialog alone.
- Multi-task while listening to video described content.
- Turn television into radio, and listen to your favorite shows
- Put video described shows on your iPod, and listen while walking, jogging, or driving.
- Provide additional language support for English as a second language users.
- Combine video descriptions with captions for rich search engine retrieval.
- Meet or exceed the W3C Web Accessibility guidelines, adopted by many state provincial and federal requirements.
- Your audio sounds even better with audio description.
- Make your content fully accessible for people who are blind or have low vision.
Ten Reasons to Caption Your Web Videos
- Captions compensate for noisy backgrounds or where sound isn’t allowed.
- They provide a solution for poor audio quality.
- Quickly browse the video by reading the associated text as you drag the controller as the captions are always visible.
- Everyone can see the correct spellings of people, places, and things.
- Catch details that normally slide by unnoticed.
- Meet or exceed the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines adapted by many state, provincial and federal governments.
- Captions can become part of a search engine.
- Provide additional support for people who are learning English as a second language.
- Make your content fully accessible to people who have hearing loss.
- Video on the web or media player can even look better when the captioning is on.
Reproduced from: Inclusive Media & Design
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