Meeting audio description through existing narration #4327
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mbgower
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Apr 7, 2025
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- Added the word "additional" to note 1 of Understanding documents for 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 (This makes it match note 3 in the audio description definition, which reads "Where all of the video information is already provided in existing audio, no additional audio description is necessary.")
- Added a new technique "Providing audio descriptions by incorporating narration into the existing soundtrack"
- Added the word "additional" to note 1 - Added a new technique "Providing audio descriptions by incorporating narration into the existing soundtrack"
Changed the preposition from "into" to "to"
Updated the ID, and made editorial changes to improve the new technique
Removed the references to a slide presentation
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I agree that the following is problematic:
For 1.2.3 and 1.2.5, if all of the important information in the video track is already conveyed in the audio track, no audio description is necessary.
But I don't like adding additional as the adjective to audio description. Maybe:
...if all of the important information in the video track is already conveyed in the audio track, no additional narration is necessary.
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@bruce-usab "no additional narration or audio description is necessary." is perhaps better/more to the point? |
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We have to be cautious here. All I'm doing with existing guidance in this PR is matching the existing wording of note 3 of the audio description by adding the word "additional". I feel that by also swapping out "audio description" for "narration" that we are being a bit more intrusive to the existing language of the definition. It also potentially causes some churn. I think it's good to add in a technique that talks about modifying/adding narration as a way to meet audio descriptions, and provides a bunch of examples of what narration means within the context of the technique. I'm less comfortable altering a note that spans multiple SCs by removing the defined term in favour of an undefined one (even if it is used in the definition!). It just seems to be more likely to invite negative responses. |
Based on comments stripped out the adjective so it just covers narration added to the soundtrack
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