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Tweak understanding for 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 #1790

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions guidelines/terms/20/audio-description.html
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other visual content.
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<p class="note">In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue.
(See also <a>extended audio description</a>.)
<p class="note">In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue. Usually, this may require
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lowering the volume of background music and other non-informational sounds. (See also <a>extended audio description</a>.)
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<p class="note">Where all of the <a>video</a> information is already provided in existing <a>audio</a>, no additional audio description is necessary.
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<p>One approach is to provide audio description of the video content. The audio description
augments the audio portion of the presentation with the information needed when the
video portion is not available. During existing pauses in dialogue, audio description
provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, and on-screen text
that are important and are not described or spoken in the main sound track.
video portion is not available. Audio description provides information about actions,
characters, scene changes, and on-screen text that are important and are not described
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or spoken in the main sound track. Audio description is usually added during existing
pauses in dialogue. In rare cases where the original audio does not provide sufficient
pauses, it may be possible to create them by lowering the volume ("ducking") some of the
existing dialogue, if the need for audio description is deemed to be more important.
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<p>The second approach involves providing all of the information in the synchronized
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<p>The intent of this Success Criterion is to provide people who are blind or visually
impaired access to the visual information in a synchronized media presentation. The
audio description augments the audio portion of the presentation with the information
needed when the video portion is not available. During existing pauses in dialogue,
audio description provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, and
on-screen text that are important and are not described or spoken in the main sound
track.
needed when the video portion is not available. Audio description provides information about actions,
characters, scene changes, and on-screen text that are important and are not described
or spoken in the main sound track. Audio description is usually added during existing
pauses in dialogue. In rare cases where the original audio does not provide sufficient
pauses, it may be possible to create them by lowering the volume ("ducking") some of the
existing dialogue, if the need for audio description is deemed to be more important.
</p>

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<p>This success criterion applies even in cases where the original audio does not
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have sufficient pauses, and where no portion of the original audio can be omitted in
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have sufficient pauses, and where no portion of the original audio can be omitted in

favour of an audio description without losing important information. In these cases,
the content will fail this success criterion.
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