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Transcripts

Transcripts provide a textual version of the content that can be accessed by anyone.  Screen reader users may also prefer the transcript over listening to the audio of the web multimedia.¹

Transcripts do not have to be verbatim accounts of the spoken word in a video. They should contain additional descriptions, explanations, or comments that may be beneficial, such as indications of laughter or an explosion.²    

Remember, the purpose of a transcript is to provide a text equivalent for the concepts covered in the visual and auditory parts of a video.

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¹"Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions." WebAIM: web accessibility in mind. WebAIM. 29 Aug 2013. Web. 17 Nov 2014. <http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/>.
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