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Web Accessibility Guidelines

8. Video/Multimedia


8.1 A text transcript or audio description is provided for pre-recorded videos without audio. A note is provided: “No sound is used in this video.”

8.2 Multimedia video has descriptive transcript or audio description for pre-recorded media.

8.3 Captions are provided for all pre-recorded videos.

8.4 Synchronized captions are available for live multimedia videos with audio.

8.5 Audio descriptions are provided if videos display information necessary or helpful to viewers’ understanding.

8.6 A mechanism is available to turn off or stop the audio, and/or a mechanism is available to control the audio volume independent of the overall system’s volume level. Audio that plays automatically is avoided.

8.7 Embedded multimedia is identified by text.

8.8 Form buttons and inputs are descriptive and have associated text labels.

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