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Re: Captions not in Text-Format

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From: wolfgang.berndorfer
Date: Sep 5, 2022 12:46AM

Again example https://brenopolanski.github.io/html5-video-webvtt-example/:
... is embedded as <video> and the captions implemented with <track />.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#the-track-element

I tested in Chrome 105 and Jaws/Fusion 2022:
When the video shows subtitles, there is a text found by the SR, e.g. " Aprendi a me virar e você volto".
So the captions are rendered as text and can be found with a SR though not as easy as I wished.

> The WCAG level A and AA success criteria are designed for people who either have a visual impairment or a hearing impairment, but not both. Therefore neither the captions nor the caption files are intended for screen reader users at level AA, so it is not surprising that there is no way to read them.

Why not surprising? Screen readers may and do perform more than WCAG requires.
;-)