exploratory Supplemental requirement

Caption Features Available

Group: images-and-media • Guideline: captions

Summary in Plain English

An exploratory requirement: captions offer enhanced features that let users interact with them rather than only read them.

Why It Matters

Being able to search, pause on or re-read a caption gives deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers the same control over pace that hearing viewers get from replaying audio.

Examples from the Draft

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W3C Working Group Status

W3C Maturity Status: exploratory

Track / Group: images-and-media

Open Questions Recorded in the Draft

The editors' own notes (:::ednote) in guidelines/groups/images-and-media/captions/caption-features-available.md. These are the questions the group has written down as unresolved — not a summary of discussion written here.

Needs additional research.

W3C Threads on This Provision

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#460 Need to define "enhanced" - Enhanced caption features (Supplemental) open 0 comments · updated 2026-03-29

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/images-and-media/captions/caption-features-available.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/images-and-media/captions/caption-features-available.md

Enhanced features that allow users to interact with captions are available.

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* Needs additional research.
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