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      Adding Videos

      Video always enhance a message or enables self-help or guidance.

      Your site does not have a built in media player, so if you want to use a video it has to be hosted and publicly available on a platform like YouTube or Vimeo.

      Based on NHS: Making video and other multimedia content accessible

      WCAG Checklist

      Does the video have speech or other audio that is needed to understand the content?

      If yes, then it must contain Captions

      Does the video have visual information that is needed to understand the content?

      If yes, then it must contact Audio description of the visual information

       

      If no

      If your video does not need captions (because there is no substantive audio content) or does not need description (because there is no substantive visual content), it’s good to let users know that. Otherwise, they might think that you accidentally forgot to provide it.

      Users who need captions will look there, so you can provide a captions file with only the appropriate indication, such as “[background music]”. Or you can provide the information in text with the video, such as:

      Captions not needed: The only sound in this video is background music.

      Description not needed: The visuals in this video only support what is spoken; the visuals do not provide additional information.

      Equality Checklist

      Have language translations been provided by the owner of the video? Translations services are unable to translate subtitles within videos.

      From the hosted platform you need to copy the 'Embed Code'. This is usually found within the sharing options of the video on the platform that it is hosted on. 

      One you have this 'Embed Code', use it to create a Video Media Item. Then you can add the Media Item to a page.

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