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  1. Functional Accessibility Requirements
  2. 11. Software
  3. 11.2: Non-Web software success criteria
  4. 11.2.1: Non-Web software success criteria (excluding closed functionality)
  5. 11.2.1.4: Audio description or media alternative (pre-recorded)

11.2.1.4: Audio description or media alternative (pre-recorded)

Where ICT is non-web software that provides a user interface and that supports access to assistive technologies for screen reading, it shall satisfy the success criterion in Table 11.4.

Table 11.4: Software success criterion: Audio description or media alternative (pre-recorded)
An alternative for time-based media or audio description of the pre-recorded video content is provided for synchronized media, except when the media is a media alternative for text and is clearly labeled as such.

NOTE 1: The WCAG 2.0 definition of "audio description" says that "audio description" is "also called 'video description' and 'descriptive narration'".

NOTE 2: Secondary or alternate audio tracks are commonly used for this purpose.

NOTE 3: This success criterion is identical to the WCAG 2.0 Success Criterion 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Pre-recorded) with the addition of notes 1 and 2 above.

Testing methods

Type of compliance Inspection
Pre-conditions
  1. The ICT is non-web software that provides a user interface.
  2. The software provides support to assistive technologies for screen reading.
Procedure
  1. Check that the software does not fail the Success Criterion in Table 11.4.
Result Pass: Check 1 is true
Fail: Check 1 is false

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