WCAG 2.0
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 provide development techniques and tests for supporting deaf and hard of hearing users. (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/)
TIPS
- Ensure text or visual alternative is available for audio alerts and sounds.
- Provide text transcript for audio
- Provide captions for audio in synchronized media
- Provide sign language for prerecorded audio in synchronized media
Testing
- Turn off sound on your device and ensure you can understand your application’s audio and video.
Resources
- IBM Accessibility (www.ibm.com/able)
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/)
- Guideline 1.2 Time Based Media (http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/media-equiv.html)
- National Center for Accessible Media – MAGpie (http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-guidelines/magpie)
- IBM Ability Lab Media Captioner & Editor (http://www-03.ibm.com/able/accessibility_research_projects/captionereditor.html)
- Examples:
- IBM Accessibility on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-k_k66Y8zpP96TLYAcJ6_w)
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