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Re: Captions not in Text-Format

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From: wolfgang.berndorfer
Date: Sep 3, 2022 4:57AM

Thank you, Steve for clarification concerning SC 1.4.5 and the hint to SC 1.2.8!

So, caption files seem to be the solution for the realization of captions. Or are there any other mechanisms to pass 1.4.5 in videos?

And what do we know about captions for SR users?

In my third question I didn't mean that the caption file should be read with the SR, just like I do not read the HTML Code. My question is, how these files are rendered and supported by UA/AT.

I just started to learn about WebVTT and tried out the first example that Google brought:
https://brenopolanski.github.io/html5-video-webvtt-example/
I found a way in Chrome with JAWS to navigate to the caption text. Don't ask me how I found the captions again after pressing pause or play…

There seems to be no mechanism available to jump to a caption in JAWS and NVDA. And a mechanism that puts out the current caption at my braille display, while I listen to a video, has to be found yet.

Are captions underestimated by AT?

Wolfgang