Transcripts Findable

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

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

W3C Working Group Status

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• #73 Image and media alternatives - Clear labelling open 1 comment · updated 2026-10-13

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.

W3C Raw Source Text

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

A text transcript is adjacent to audio and video content.

:::except-when
* The audio or video content has no spoken dialogue.
* The audio or video is decorative.
* The media is already a media alternative for text and is clearly labeled as such.
:::