Sign language available (prerecorded)
Normative Text
Sign language interpretation is provided for all prerecorded audio content in the primary sign language of the intended audience or region.
Except when
- It is a decorative background sound.
Tests
This section is non-normative.
Sign language for audio only
Procedure
For each instance of prerecorded audio content:
- Check that a sign language translation is available.
- Check that the sign language translation conveys all the auditory information needed to understand the full context and meaning in the pre-recorded audio content.
Expected results
- #1 and #2 are true.
Tests
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Key Terms
- audio
live or recorded sound signal
- live
information captured from a real-world event and transmitted to the receiver with no more than a broadcast delay
A broadcast delay is a short (usually automated) delay, for example used in order to give the broadcaster time to cue or censor the audio (or video) feed, but not sufficient to allow significant editing.
If information is completely computer generated, it is not live.
- prerecorded
information that is not live
- sign language interpretation
translation of one language, generally a spoken language, into a sign language
True sign languages are independent languages that are unrelated to the spoken language(s) of the same country or region.