WCAG 2.1 Article 1.2.2

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Hey everybody. Josh here with Online ADA.

In this video we're gonna cover article 1.2.2.

Captions. This is for pre recorded content.

Let's dive in.

This is a level A accessibility guideline

and it reads, 'Captions are provided for all

pre recorded audio content in synchronized media,

except when the media is a media alternative for

text and it's clearly labeled as such.

Synchronized media is the key word in this one.

In our previous WCAG article we talked about audio

only and video only.

That's

the opposite of synchronized media.

This is where both of those things are combined

together in one

element.

You will see this often times when people have

YouTube videos or Vimeo videos embedded on their

website.

It's important to understand that when you use

these videos and embed them on your site you have

to provide captions for them.

It's also important to understand the distinction

between subtitles and captions.

Subtitles provide text alternatives for the

dialogue only.

When two actors are talking to each other in a

scene, in a video,

the

subtitle would read their words to each other but

I wouldn't describe the scenery or the background

or the actions that they're taking, if one of them

is

if it's a cartoon and

one of the actors is hitting the other one with

the hammer or something.

That would need to be conveyed in a

caption.

Captions do both. They do dialogue and they do

descriptions of the

actions that are happening in there as well.

There are two ways that you can provide captions

for the videos on your site.

One of them is to have baked in text, or always on

captions.

These are great.

I see these actually most often.

But the other way, and these are sometimes

provided by a YouTube enbeds, closed captions.

Closed captions are a way to collapse or turn off

those captions for users who don't need them.

A lot of times if you can find them

YouTube will provide the button for you and it's just a

little CC

square, usually in the bottom right hand corner of

the video, although that could change based on, you

know whether it's Vimeo or YouTube.

But these are great too and that actually

qualifies as being compliant for the purposes of

1.2.2.

So

whether you provide them yourself or whether you

are embedding content that provides that for you,

it is important to note that they need to be there.

I often get asked who's responsibility it is to

provide captions for these videos.

On one hand is the responsibility of the person

who made the video

and uploaded it to YouTube? Or is it the

responsibility of the person using the video on

their website?

In an ideal world,

all kinds of creators would be accessibility

aware and they would provide captions for their

videos when on upload.

But that is not the situation, unfortunately. So,

whenever you're using content and putting it on

your website,

it is your responsibility to make sure that that

video has captions where you're using it.

If you are presenting it on

your website,

you need to be responsible for putting those

captions

there for the users to visit your site.

And with that,

we have completed another article from WCAG

accessibility guidelines. I'm Josh with Online ADA

and I will see you in the next video.