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From: Steve Green
Date: Aug 11, 2021 1:02AM

As far as I can tell, no WCAG success criteria require text in videos to have sufficient colour contrast. Am I missing something?

I am currently testing some videos that contain important text content that is not presented anywhere else. The colour contrast would fail SC 1.4.3, but it does not appear to apply. It seems that the only requirement is that the text is presented in the audio track or an audio description, but that really doesn't feel adequate.

Assuming I am not missing anything, does anyone know why text in video content was not included in SC 1.4.3? Any other thoughts on the matter?

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Steve Green
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