Dialogue transcripts available (prerecorded)

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

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

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W3C Threads on This Provision

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• #519 [Transcripts Available] background video unclear closed 0 comments · updated 2026-07-08

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.

• 📘 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) Level A →

W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/images-and-media/transcripts/dialogue-transcripts-available-prerecorded.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/images-and-media/transcripts/dialogue-transcripts-available-prerecorded.md

Dialogue transcripts are available for all prerecorded audio and video content.

:::except-when
* The audio or video content is an alternative for text and is clearly labeled as such.
* The audio or video has no spoken content and serves only as background.
:::