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Audio

Barriers#

Provide

  1. Captions for multimedia with speech
  2. Transcripts for audio-only content
  3. Visual alternatives for audio alerts
  4. User control over audio that auto-plays

Captions demo#

Interactive demo

Captions on vs off

Captions (illustrative)

Illustrative media player—not real audio or video. Shows why captions matter when content is audio-dependent.

Captions off — this clip is audio-dependent. Without captions or a transcript, people who cannot hear the audio miss the message.

Test

Test
ActionExpect
Mute deviceYou can still get the information
Toggle captionsSpeech content remains available