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Sounds Identified In Captions

Group: images-and-media • Guideline: captions

Summary in Plain English

Where sound carries meaning and the video is not decorative, the captions say what the sound is - not only what is spoken.

Why It Matters

Significant sounds - a phone, a knock, music signalling a change - are part of the content, not decoration around it.

Scope: When This Applies

The draft's own conditions, quoted from guidelines/groups/images-and-media/captions/sounds-identified-in-captions.md.

Applies when

there is sound.

Except when

the video is decorative.

W3C Working Group Status

W3C Maturity Status: developing

Track / Group: images-and-media

Open Questions Recorded in the Draft

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

This includes sound effects and other non-spoken audio content.

W3C Threads on This Provision

No GitHub issue in w3c/wcag3 carries this provision's label, so there is no recorded discussion to show. Cross-cutting threads that name no provision are listed on the Discussions page.

W3C Raw Source Text

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

Sounds needed to understand the media are identified or described in captions.

:::ednote
This includes sound effects and other non-spoken audio content.
:::

:::applies-when
- there is sound.
:::

:::except-when
- the video is decorative.
:::