Mozilla Launches Video Accessibility Drive

“The value of multimedia accessibility for users with
disabilities is clear, but the issues faced regularly by deaf and
blind users confront all users at different times and under
different circumstances. In loud surroundings, users may need
closed captioning to understand a video. Mobile device users may
not be able to maintain eye contact with the screen, in which case
audio annotations become necessary. And, perhaps most importantly,
making a text transcription of multimedia files available opens the
possibility of indexing and searching video and audio alongside
HTML.”

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