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Are the CODECS of the sounds compressed to the maximum ?

Advice 

Sounds / Videos

B People

B Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

N/A

Priority

/

Récurrence

/

Tests

Is the sound quality reduced and tested against human ability to get the message?

Precisions

Lower sound quality and sampling reduce the load of data used for handling sound. The audio compression mechanisms (CODEC) will reduce the volume of data transfered but, on the other hand, will need more CPU power to decode data and play the sounds on the user device.

Additional elements

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

0 / 0

Life cycle

Réalisation

12 other criteria related to the recommendation: Avoid active content, keep dynamic content under user control

Recommendation Essential

Videos

Can the information carried by the video be replaced by an alternative (computer graphics ...) ?

Advice

Animated content

Have you limited the animations ?

Recommendation

Animated content

Is the use of Flash removed, replaced by another effect ?

Recommendation

Animated content

Are active content triggered only on user action ?

Recommendation

Animated content

Is the animated content on the visible part of the screen (no animation triggered under the active part of the screen) ?

Advice

Animated content

Is the duration of animated content that has been validated as necessary optimized ?

Advice

Videos

Which videos are really meaningful and useful for understanding the service (examples: logo, images, links, contractual images, etc.) ?

Recommendation

Videos

What videos can we avoid (not useful for understanding the service) ?

Advice

Videos

Have the alternatives to streaming (vs local video) been evaluated ?

Recommendation

Videos

Is the duration of videos (validated as necessary) optimized ?

Advice

Videos

Is broadcasting live sessions useful ?

Recommendation

Sounds

Can the sound of the video be rendered as text ?