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Web Accessibility - Priority 1

Web Accessibility: Priority 1

Web Accessibility: Multimedia

Synchronize Auditory Descriptions and Captions

Until hardware/software can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation.

For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.

When providing audio clips, also provide captions or a transcription.

When providing video clips, provide captions, as well as an auditory description of important visual information. Auditory descriptions provide information about the action, body language, graphics, and scene changes in the video. Without verbal descriptions of this visual information, people who cannot see (or look at) the visual content are not able to perceive it.

NOTE: To abide by copyright law, permission must be obtained from producer/publisher/distributor before captioning multimedia content.