Principle 1 Perceivable · Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media

1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)

Every prerecorded video with sound needs captions.

Level A

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.

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Normative wording

The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.

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