The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) are a set of guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which guide best practice in creating accessible website content. The guidelines cover a range of principles that, when complied with, make your content user-friendly and accessible to people with disability, including deafness and hearing loss, learning disability, blindness and low vision, mobility impairment and cognitive disability.
Levels of Compliance
Under the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, media such as recorded videos, audio clips and live-streams are required to be made accessible through closed captions, transcripts and audio description. The extent to which these need to be made accessible depends on which level of compliance is legislated in your country of operation. Under WCAG 2.0, there are 3 levels of compliance providing increasing levels of accessibility – Level A, Level AA and Level AAA. The most commonly regulated level of compliance is WCAG 2.0 AA.
Examples of WCAG
In complying with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, there are numerous methods of making your videos accessible. Check out the examples below.
Closed Captions
Open Captions
Standard Audio Description
Extended Audio Description
Transcript
Media Alternative Transcript
Who needs to comply with WCAG?
Under the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, media such as recorded videos, audio clips and live-streams are required to be made accessible through closed captions, transcripts and audio description.
The extent to which these need to be made accessible depends on which level of compliance is legislated in your country of operation. Under WCAG 2.0, there are 3 levels of compliance providing increasing levels of accessibility – Level A, Level AA and Level AAA. The most commonly regulated level of compliance is WCAG 2.0 AA.
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