[en] Captions/Subtitles

Hello

I’m trying to work out what WCAG says about best practice for video captions. Specifically, I want to know if video with hard-coded captions (sometimes called open captions I think) meets AA level.

We try where possible to add captions as separate files. Sometimes this isn’t possible, and we will hard-code them onto the video (for use on social media). But I’m not sure that’s very accessible. I’ve spent a bit of time today looking for any information on this, if there’s anything in WCAG about this specifically I’d be grateful to know.

Thanks, and keep up the good work 😊

Rayner
Rayner Simpson | Web Content Editor

School of Management, University of Bath
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