Audio Descriptions Synchronized

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/images-and-media/audio-descriptions/audio-descriptions-synchronized.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

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• #455 Definition rather than requirement - Audio description timing (Foundational) open 0 comments · updated 2026-03-29

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

From this site's reviewed WCAG 2.2 → WCAG 3 map. The map is an interpretation, not a W3C mapping: W3C has not published one yet.

• 📘 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded) Level AA →

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/images-and-media/audio-descriptions/audio-descriptions-synchronized.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/images-and-media/audio-descriptions/audio-descriptions-synchronized.md

Audio descriptions are synchronized with video content without overlapping dialogue and meaningful audio content.

:::except-when
- There are no audio descriptions.
:::