Captions Controllable

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

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

W3C Working Group Status

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W3C Threads on This Provision

4 GitHub threads carrying 0 comments, fetched from w3c/wcag3 by the tracker. Titles, numbers and states are the threads' own.

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• #233 Captions open 0 comments · updated 2026-05-01
• #234 WCAG 3.0 Draft Guideline Captions open 0 comments · updated 2026-05-01
• #298 Email: WCAG 3.0 public comment (15 - open vs closed captions open 0 comments · updated 2026-05-02
• #925 "Media alternatives controllable" is redundant open 0 comments · updated 2026-10-19

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

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W3C Raw Source Text

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

A mechanism is available to turn captions on and off.

:::except-when
- Captions are hard-coded into the video content.
:::