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Re: closed captions with text that's split up in awkward places. Is it compliant?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 10, 2023 7:07AM

On 10/10/2023 14:01, Mike Warner wrote:
>
> I don't see anything in W3C or WCAG that mentions how the text should be
> broken up as a success criteria

WCAG normatively doesn't say anything about the quality of captions
(and, strictly, doesn't cover many other aspects of captions; it doesn't
even explicitly say that they must be accurate - though that's arguably
implied). It really only says that you must have captions, not how good,
bad, properly broken up, whether or not they identify different
speakers, etc. they are.

> but I'd really like to say that this is an
> accessibility failure.

There are many real-world situations that are accessibility failures,
but that pass the very basic bar of WCAG. The latter really only
provides the first step towards truly accessible and usable content.

> Does anyone know of a rule that would apply to this?

I would say it passes WCAG normatively. Then, I'd hang a best practice
recommendation off of 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)

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