- Success Criterion 1.2.5
- Conformance level AA
Audio-Described Video Version That’s Broken or Blocked
1.2.5 — Audio Description (Prerecorded)
Scenario
Setting
A project-management tool's task board
What’s wrong
audio description version linked but broken, region-blocked, or behind different auth than the main video.
Example
On a project-management tool's task board: audio description version linked but broken, region-blocked, or behind different auth than the main video.
Why it matters
Blind and low-vision viewers who need spoken descriptions of important visuals. On a project-management tool's task board specifically, they can't tell what the image or video is showing.
How to test
Click the link to the described version: if it 404s, is region-blocked, or requires different login than the main video, it fails.
How to fix
An audio description track must describe all important visual-only content, using available pauses in dialogue.
Outcome
Fixed, a visitor to a project-management tool's task board can understand the image, video, or audio content.
Who is affected
Blind and low-vision viewers who need spoken descriptions of important visuals.
Learn more
- Understanding Understanding document (opens in a new tab)
Related scenarios
- Audio Description Track That Ignores Natural Dialogue Pauses
- Video With Visual-Only Info and No Audio Description Track
- Audio Description That Skips Essential On-Screen Actions
- Audio Description Toggle That Doesn’t Actually Work
- Talking-Head Video Wrongly Assumed to Need No Description
- Transcript Offered Instead of a Required Audio Description Track