Success Criterion 1.2.5
Conformance level AA
W3C reference F113

Audio Description Track That Ignores Natural Dialogue Pauses

1.2.5 — Audio Description (Prerecorded)

Scenario

Setting

A survey tool's question builder

What’s wrong

The video has natural pauses in the dialogue but the audio-description track doesn't use them to describe important visuals.

Example

Watch a survey tool's question builder closely and you'll spot this: the video has natural pauses in the dialogue but the audio-description track doesn't use them to describe important visuals.

Why it matters

Blind and low-vision viewers who need spoken descriptions of important visuals. On a survey tool's question builder, this barrier means they miss information that's only conveyed visually.

How to test

Play the video and listen during natural pauses in dialogue: if the audio-description track exists but skips available pause windows to describe visuals, it fails.

How to fix

Use dialogue pauses to describe the important visuals in the audio description.

Outcome

Corrected, a survey tool's question builder now lets a visitor understand the image, video, or audio content.

Who is affected

Blind and low-vision viewers who need spoken descriptions of important visuals.

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