Principle 1 Perceivable · Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media
1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)
Every prerecorded video with sound needs captions.
What this means in practice
This means captions, not just subtitles: who is speaking and which sounds matter belong in them too. Auto-generated captions usually fall short – they mangle terminology and names and miss speaker changes.
What Wave Access contributes
Kein Plugin kann Untertitel erfinden. Wave Tools bietet sie als Dienstleistung an – maschinell vorbereitet, von Hand geprüft.
Normative wording
The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.