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Re: EN 301 549 Video requirements discussion

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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 13, 2021 4:52PM

The solution to all these issues would be to use open captions because there are exemptions for captions that are "displayed as unmodifiable characters". Of course that would be a terrible solution, but the bad drafting of the standard forces you down that route if you want to claim full compliance.

I thought that only clause 9 applied to websites, but I can't find anything to support that assertion even though it would seem to be obvious. It is possible that other legislation that refers to EN 301 549 only requires websites to comply with clause 9. That said, the UK public sector website accessibility regulations contain no such restriction, yet the Government Digital Service interpret them as only requiring conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd