SIA-R23<audio> element content has transcript

Accessibility requirements

This rule is not required for conformance to any accessibility requirements.

Description

Prerecorded <audio> elements must have a text alternative for all included auditory information.

Applicability

This rule applies to every prerecorded <audio> element that is either playing or for which an element exists that when activated causes the <audio> element to play.

Expectations

1. The auditory information of each test target is available through a text transcript. That text transcript is visible and included in the accessibility tree, either on the page or through a link.

   A "text transcript" in the context of this rule is defined in WCAG 2 as an alternative for time based media.

Assumptions

This rule makes the following assumption:

• The language of each test target can be correctly determined, either programmatically or by analyzing the content, and sufficiently understood.

Accessibility support

This rule has no known accessibility support concerns.

Examples

Acknowledgments

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