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Re: Positioning and Styling Guidelines for Closed Captions

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 14, 2020 8:04AM

On 14/01/2020 14:58, Shewbridge, Rita wrote:
> WebAim Brains,
> I am trying to locate standards or guidelines for the positioning and styling of closed captions for audio only content. If there is no video content what are the guidelines for placement of the text and covering up other content on the screen that may be needed? Any help is appreciated.

If there's no video content, then I'm assuming this is some audio player
where you have an additional custom way of showing captions? If so, I'd
assume there's no danger of the captions covering anything, unless you
were planning of somehow overlaying them over the webpage itself? If so,
I'd recommend just avoiding any problems and having some kind of
expand/collapse widget where these custom captions have their own space
(rather than overlaying them over anything else).

Unless I'm misunderstanding what your meaning of audio-only content is
here...

P
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