Mad B1d ago
Tursiae

Good people of Fedi, I have a web design and accessibility question for you.

Do you have any recommendations as to how to make audio tracks on web accessible with a transcript?

I figure I can roll my own with what feels right, but best practice recommendations are very much welcomed.

Apr 4 at 1:00amWeb
Show threadDeborah Edwards-Oñoro1d ago

@tursiae Have you aready found your way to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Initiative page on audio and video?

https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/av-content/

Or the MDN Web Docs page on accessible multimedia at

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Accessibility/Multimedia

#accessibility

Audio Content and Video Content

Describes accessibility considerations when planning, scripting, storyboarding, recording, and producing audio and video media.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Show threadTursiae1d ago
@redcrew I have, thanks, and it touches on a bunch of good stuff. But a lot of it focuses on video (WebVTT) or the mechanics of doing a high-quality recording/transcription, rather than what I was hoping for, which is more simply "what's the equivalent of an alt attribute so I can provide the content not-in-audio-form"?
Show threadDeborah Edwards-Oñoro1d ago
@tursiae I'm tagging my friend @sbourne to see what thoughts she has.
Show threadTursiae1d ago
@redcrew @sbourne Thankyou! Very much appreciate it
Show threadSarah E Bourne1d ago
@tursiae @redcrew The standard equivalent of an audio track is a transcript. It's nice if it's on the same page as the audio is embedded on, but it's OK to link to it elsewhere. You don't need to do anything fancier.
Show threadTursiae1d ago
@sbourne @redcrew Gotchya, thanks! I was wondering if there was anything required to link it to the audio element itself.
Show threadSarah E Bourne1d ago
@tursiae @redcrew Nope! Just have it (or the link to it) near the audio track. There's no HTML that would semantically/programmatically link them.
Show threadTormod18h ago

@tursiae

Marco Arment recently discussed on Accidental Tech Podcast how he set up a solution to create transcripts from audio files.

https://atp.fm/684

Accidental Tech Podcast: 684: It’s Not What Young People Do

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.