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Re: Colour contrast of text in video content

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From: Steve Green
Date: Aug 11, 2021 6:17AM

That is exactly what I recommended to a client this morning. The transcript might need to include some of the visual content that it wouldn't usually contain, so the authoring process might be different than usual. Nevertheless, I would say that it is an acceptable alternative format as long as the transcript and the mechanism to access it are accessible.

Steve


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Colour contrast of text in video content

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 3:02 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> As far as I can tell, no WCAG success criteria require text in videos to have sufficient colour contrast. Am I missing something?
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> 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.
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> 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?
>

Would this be handled with transcripts if the video could not be made compliant?


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