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1. LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 16:11:17 JST LA Legault 🍉

   @ProcessParsnip

   My understanding was that they could read the text on the video, is that not true?

   • LA Legault 🍉 (lalegault@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 16:11:16 JST LA Legault 🍉

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     @ProcessParsnip

     I make sure everything I post has subtitles, can screen readers not read them?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 16:11:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     @LALegault @ProcessParsnip As far as I know, not the text that’s displayed in the video itself (burned into it). They could, there is no technical barrier to performing OCR on video in real-time but not sure if any do. Best to include a description of the video in the alt text to be sure. Tagging #a11y and #accessibility in case anyone with more specific knowledge of video accessibility has better information to add.

   • Adrian Roselli (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:21:47 JST Adrian Roselli

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @LALegault @ProcessParsnip
     I cannot see the original post (only a reply), but captions are for users with hearing and/or language needs. They are a visual affordance that are not helpful to blind users.

     For low-vision users, closed captions can be scaled, colored, back-plated, etc. Open captions are burned into the video frames and cannot be adjusted.

     A screen reader has no reason to access closed captions since that would conflict with audio from the video.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:21:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Adrian Roselli

     @aardrian Thanks, Adrian.

     @LALegault @ProcessParsnip