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

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 10, 2023 8:21AM

Well said, as always. ;)
I should've said that WCAG does not provide much in the way of of
actual tangible requirements for transcripts, only functional ones.
This is the biggest strength of WCAG as well as its biggest weakness. ;)


On 10/10/23, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> 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
> > > > >


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