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- How to make audio and video content in presentations accessible to people with hearing disabilities?
- How would you make an audio visual text accessible for deaf or hard-of-hearing audiences?
- What are the different ways that audio can be made accessible to a deaf person?
- What are the WCAG 2.1 guidelines?
How to make audio and video content in presentations accessible to people with hearing disabilities?
To make this content accessible to those who are deaf, the producer could arrange for a sign language interpreter or text captioning to appear on the screen. Captioning involves synchronizing text with audio content of a video presentation.
How would you make an audio visual text accessible for deaf or hard-of-hearing audiences?
Use Subtitles and Captions
Subtitles and captions are lines of text used to describe what is happening in multimedia content. They are often synchronized with the video to help members of the public who are deaf, hard of hearing, or non-native English speakers to better understand the content.
What are the different ways that audio can be made accessible to a deaf person?
Captions/Subtitles: Provide captions (also called “subtitles”) so that people who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing get a text version of the speech and non-speech audio information needed to understand the content.
What are the WCAG 2.1 guidelines?
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 defines how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility involves a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities.
