<story><title>Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF</title><url>https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I find irony in the fact that this is a YouTube video with no text transcript, massively reducing its accessibility to both those with disabilities and those who aren&amp;#x27;t in an environment where they can sit and watch a 20-minute video.&lt;p&gt;Does YouTube have the ability for authors to attach or display a text version of their video?</text></item><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>I listened to a talk at a web development conference from one of the UK government&amp;#x27;s accessibility developers. Among other things, they do extensive accessibility testing and discovered things you wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect. For example, to people who didn&amp;#x27;t grow up with them, dropdown boxes are apparently unintuitive, so gov.uk avoids them. I was very impressed.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>1) The conference did the uploading, not the speaker&lt;p&gt;2) I think the videos were thrown up on YouTube in a &amp;quot;why not&amp;quot; sort of way, with minimal effort. Notice how the whole channel is just that specific event over that couple of days. I&amp;#x27;m glad they posted them, but it was primarily an in-person event.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF</title><url>https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I find irony in the fact that this is a YouTube video with no text transcript, massively reducing its accessibility to both those with disabilities and those who aren&amp;#x27;t in an environment where they can sit and watch a 20-minute video.&lt;p&gt;Does YouTube have the ability for authors to attach or display a text version of their video?</text></item><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>I listened to a talk at a web development conference from one of the UK government&amp;#x27;s accessibility developers. Among other things, they do extensive accessibility testing and discovered things you wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect. For example, to people who didn&amp;#x27;t grow up with them, dropdown boxes are apparently unintuitive, so gov.uk avoids them. I was very impressed.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Q8Mj7_0Lok0&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>You can add subtitles or closed captions to the video. It also supports adding a transcript (like subtitles or closed captions, but without timing information), and it will use speech recognition to try to line it up with the video.&lt;p&gt;You can also add a transcript or a link to a transcript in the video description.</text></comment>