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Closed captions which copy screen text - are they necessary?
Hello,
I seem to keep going down this rabbit hole with my friend Google, but not getting anywhere concrete. The course that I'm working on has all the text content on the slide, which is 99% the ...
Hi Lindsay,
Thanks for your post, it is the only one I found about this topic!
Here's what is stated in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from W3:
"1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)
Understanding Captions (Prerecorded)|How to Meet Captions (Prerecorded)
Captions are provided for all prerecorded audio content in synchronized media, except when the media is a media alternative for text and is clearly labelled as such."
In your case (and mine lol), the audio IS a media alternative for the text that's on the slide, right? So the WCAG say: no need for captions.
