Media embed with transcript and audio description

Important note

All new marketing videos on the University of Derby website need to have closed captions and full transcripts. The transcript should include all the dialogue and important sounds from the closed captions, and also any description of important visual information, such as on-screen text.

You do not have to produce a second version of these marketing videos with synchronised audio description unless this is requested specifically by a user. This is in line with our disproportionate burden section of our accessibility statement.

If you are producing video for other University platforms, you will need to have closed captions and a transcript, but you may also need to provide a version of your video with synchronised audio description.

Example media embed with transcript

This transcript includes the dialogue and any text shown on screen. As it is a simple "talking-head" video, there are no other visual changes that need describing in the transcript.

A link is shown under the media embed to point the user to the transcript. The link text includes the media name which you set on your media embed. The link won't show without the media name field as well as the transcript field being completed.

Example media embed with transcript (no dialogue)

This video has no dialogue but it does have text on screen and visual content that tells a sighted viewer about what it's like to be an Accounting student. You need to include all of that information in your transcript so that a user who is blind or has a visual impairment will understand the content.

Example media embed with transcript and audio description

This video has dialogue and visual changes that need describing in your transcript. 

As this is not a simple "talking-head" video, an audio described version would be needed for the content to comply fully with the accessibility regulations, and ensure all users can access the content.

An audio description provides a user who is blind or has a visual impairment with the equivalent content available to a user who can see, in a synchronised format (ie timed to the video). The audio described version shows on the transcript page when you add the link to the audio-described video in the "audio description URL" field in the media embed.

Example media embed with transcript and audio description (no dialogue)

This is the accounting video again but this time we've added an audio-described version to the media embed to show you how it can be achieved.