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Sign language available (prerecorded)

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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:

  1. Check that a sign language translation is available.
  2. 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.