1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (A)
Understanding 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (A)
Video content like instructional videos must have audio description, unless it already has a text alternative. This ensures that information communicated visually in the video is available to people who cannot see it.
Requirements / What to do?
- Video content is audio described, or has a text alternative that describes the visual content of the video.
Common mistakes
- The video does not have audio description or a text alternative;
- The audio description does not describe important information communicated visually in the video;
- The text alternative does not describe important information communicated visually in the video;
- The audio description is not synchronised to complement the audio content of the video.