On 04/25/2018 10:50 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote: >> Why on earth are there videos in the help files? >> That smacks of being a Section 508 violation. >> Could you elaborate on this,
_Section 508_ is a US Law. This is the federal regulation (^1) that requires government agencies, and organizations with government contracts, to make _everything_ accessible to those with disabilities. ADA is a different law in the United States, and it applies everywhere. For a blind person, Audio-Captioning of a video, is a "reasonable accommodation". For a deaf person, Close-Captioning of a video is a "reasonable accommodation". For the deaf-blind, neither of those options are usable. What does work is a transcript of both the audio-captioning and the closed-captioning, but even that is generally considered to be little more than a work-around. Is an audio-captioned transcript available? Is a closed-captioned transcript available? _If_ both of those are available, and integrated into one document, then, if that was placed within the video, such that a deaf-blind person could read it, it _might_ be Section 508 compliant. Audio-captioning takes a long time. Budget one minute for each second in the video. A five minute video would take 300 minutes to audio-caption. >BTW I'm sure Olivier didn't want to make wrong but didn't realized the >consequences. Section 508 is the type of regulation that nobody pays attention to, unless they have a11y requirements. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the video fails legal criteria in Canada, for a very different set of reasons --- not locally produced. >We need to enhance the help files, True. Several times this year, I've started to write documentation, but it is a huge task, that feels utterly overwhelming. Even breaking it down into sub-tasks of sub-tasks of sub-tasks has an air of intimidation to it. (About a year ago I concluded that the only way forward, was to throw away all of the existing documentation, and rewrite everything from scratch, because so much had changed, and the future promised even bigger changes, with even less advance notice. Shortcuts that worked in 4.0 don't work in 6.0. Functionality that was present in 4.0 doesn't exist in the 6.0.3 daily build. OTOH, one can do things in the 6.0.3 daily build that aren't doable in 5.x.) >I'm only sad that we are not part of the discussion when we are highly >concerned. That probably has as much to do with where and when the discussions are held, as anything else. Oliver is pretty good about providing the agenda, along with the date, time, and place of the Documentation Team Meetings. EG: 2018-04-25 19:00 CET https://meet.jit.si/tdfdocteam agenda at https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/documentation ^1: Technically, it only applies to the federal government, and agencies and organizations that have a contract with the federal government. On a practical level, it also applies to state, county, and local government, and organizations that have contracts with them. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
