From the course: Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices
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Adding transcripts - HTML Tutorial
From the course: Simplifying Web Development with Accessibility Best Practices
Adding transcripts
- [Narrator] If a webpage contains an audio or video file with information, it should also contain a full transcript. As I said at the top of the chapter, the three main reasons for this, transcripts make the information available to anyone able to access text, transcripts make the information searchable, copyable and to a degree translatable and transcripts make the information indexable on search engines. This brings up two immediate questions. How do I create a transcript? And how do I add it to a page without the transcript taking up the entire page? Both of these questions become more pressing the longer and more expansive the media is. The proper answer to the first question is every video and audio files should have a transcript written by a professional service and a human being. That sounds expensive but it's getting cheaper by the day. And more and more services are using some form of hybrid model with…
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