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From: Mike Warner
Date: Mar 22, 2024 8:58AM

Hi,

I thought that I saw once where any on-screen text in a video that's not
spoken needs to be in the captions, but I can't find it. So maybe my
memory is faulty? The W3C example video does not have the on-screen text
at the beginning of the video in the caption. The link for that video is
https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/captions/

Is it required to put on-screen text from a video in the captions and this
is just a bad example, or is it not required? Maybe it's just good
practice?

Thank you,
Mike

Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge Learning