| Tip 22 | Making Videos Accessible |
None of the fallback solutions we’ve discussed work well for users with disabilities. In fact, the HTML5 specification explicitly points that out. A hearing-impaired person won’t find any value in being able to download the audio file, and a visually impaired person won’t have much use for a video file that’s viewable outside of the browser. When you provide content to our users, you should provide usable alternatives whenever possible. Video and audio files should have transcripts that people can view. If you produce your own content, transcripts are easy to make if you plan them from the start because they can come right from the script. Let’s add a simple transcript right below our video:
| html5_video/videojs_index.html ... |
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