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Captions, transcripts and audio descriptions 0:49
A 49-second explainer of Captions, transcripts and audio descriptions, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Ways to make audio-visual content reach people who can't fully see or hear it. Captions put speech and meaningful sound on screen, in sync, for people who can't hear. A standard transcript is a readable equivalent of the audio; a descriptive transcript also includes the essential visual events. Audio description speaks the important visuals in the gaps, for people who can't see. Each serves a different barrier - and most media needs more than one.
Toggle each track and you can feel who it's for: captions hand the dialogue to someone who can't hear it, audio description hands the on-screen action to someone who can't see it, and the transcript gives everyone the whole thing as text. One video, three different barriers - and no single track removes them all.
