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

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Oct 10, 2023 8:17AM

> WCAG normatively doesn't say anything about the quality of captions

While WCAG doesn't define any useful measure of quality, the normative definition of captions<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#dfn-captions> is "synchronized visual and/or text alternative for both speech and non-speech audio information needed to understand the media content." The definition also has two notes that state "Captions are equivalents…"

So, one can certainly argue that if the presentation of captions impacts the ability to understand the media content or results in information that is not equivalent that they are not actually captions, and thus not WCAG conformant. How you measure these would be entirely subjective.

Jared