Principle 1 Perceivable · Guideline 1.2: Time-based Media
1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)
Prerecorded video needs audio description – a transcript is no longer enough.
What this means in practice
This is the point most sites get wrong: claiming level AA while offering only a transcript is not conformant. A trained voice describes what is on screen during the dialogue gaps.
What Wave Access contributes
Audiodeskription ist Teil des Wave-Tools-Angebots; das Plugin kann die Fassung mit Beschreibung im Frontend umschaltbar ausspielen.
Normative wording
The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.