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Alternative text and long description – Best practices

Alternative text (or alt text) is text that describes and conveys the meaning of a visual non-text item like an image, flowchart, graph and so on. This document will guide you to determine the type of alt text needed and provide you with tips on writing an alt text and long descriptions for simple and complex images, like charts, maps and so on.

Audio Description Guidelines

Audio description allows any user with a visual disability or cognitive disability to receive a very detailed and descriptive experience of what is happening on the screen for every aspect of the video.

Captioning Checklist

Making sure you did not forget anything with your captions.

Introduction to accessibility requirements for audio-video

This document is a great introduction on how to make accessible video for a communication advisor audience which are in between the web author and the content expert.

Language of Audio/Video Content

When to use sign language interpretation and bilingual videos, tools and samples of accessible videos. 

Live Broadcast

Live Broadcasts are defined as a facilitator presenting a PowerPoint via videoconference. Here we have defined each type and their respective accessibility requirements.

Recordings

Recordings typically fall into one of two categories, an in-person facilitated event (Standard Video) or an audio-only presentation. Here is a definition of each type and their respective accessibility requirements.

Transcript Checklist

A tool to make sure you did not forget anything.

Transcript Guidelines

Guidelines on how to incorporate various aspects of audio and video into a transcript.

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