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T Chu 朱

@ChanceyFleet

Thanks for sharing this. If I may ask, can you share how alt text for videos would work best for you?

If they are videos of say a talking head into the camera and the text is already subbed, it feels redundant to have it again. It might not be relevant to the message to describe the person delivering it but would that make a difference to you?

5 August at 2:52 | Wall-to-wall | Open on climatejustice.social
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ChanceyFleet

@chu I’m still wrapping my head around this. If the text is subd, can the screen reader read it? The presenter’s image is probably relevant — i do want to know if they have pink hair or a good outfit

5 August at 3:01 | Open on mas.to
T Chu 朱

@ChanceyFleet

I had assumed the screen readers could read the text, but I honestly don't know how it works.

I'm happy to know that you are interested if the presenter has pink hair or big glasses. I will try to include this kind of information. Thanks!

5 August at 3:05 | Open on climatejustice.social
ChanceyFleet

@chu It's a weird ambiguity now. On Youtube or other streaming services we can have subtitles spoken or brailled so what remains as a challenge is image description

5 August at 3:10 | Open on mas.to
T Chu 朱

@ChanceyFleet

Thanks for this! I will try and do better going forward.

The videos I am talking about generally have subs and there's already audio (the person is speaking) so what's really missing is what it looks like. I had tried to do a few with "person looking into camera, background is of books" but all of it felt pretty lame. It's also not really relevant. But knowing that someone appreciates knowing what the person is wearing, their hair, maybe their gender makes a world of difference to how I will alt text going forward. Thanks!

@ChanceyFleet

Thanks for this! I will try and do better going forward.

The videos I am talking about generally have subs and there's already audio (the person is speaking) so what's really missing is what it looks like. I had tried to do a few with "person looking into camera, background is of books" but all of it felt pretty lame. It's also not really relevant. But knowing that someone appreciates knowing what the person is wearing, their hair, maybe their gender makes a world of difference to how...

5 August at 3:13 | Open on climatejustice.social
Radical Resilience Film

@chu @ChanceyFleet A good term to look up for that would be Audio Description. When a video is audio described, there is usually a second audio track you can choose where visual information is also described.

Its interesting to know that subtitles can be spoken on YouTube, so if there are multiple languages in a video it could still be accessible?

5 August at 8:38 | Open on todon.nl
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