Captions Synchronized

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

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

W3C Working Group Status

The draft records no open editors' notes on this provision.

W3C Threads on This Provision

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

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• #458 Caption can be out of sync - Captions are synchronized (Foundational) open 0 comments · updated 2026-03-29
• #514 [Captions synchronized] consider removing or improving latency definition open 0 comments · updated 2026-03-27

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.

• 📘 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) Level A →

W3C Raw Source Text

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

Captions are synchronized with the audio content of synchronized media.