- Success Criterion 1.2.5
- Conformance level AA
Audio Description Toggle That Doesn’t Actually Work
1.2.5 — Audio Description (Prerecorded)
Scenario
Setting
An e-book reader's library page
What’s wrong
Player offers audio description toggle that doesn't function or resets on each chapter.
Example
Picture an e-book reader's library page: player offers audio description toggle that doesn't function or resets on each chapter.
Why it matters
Blind and low-vision viewers who need spoken descriptions of important visuals. In this case (an e-book reader's library page), they miss information that's only conveyed visually.
How to test
Toggle the AD control in the player: if it doesn't actually enable the described track, or resets to off on each new chapter, it fails.
How to fix
An audio description track must describe all important visual-only content, using available pauses in dialogue.
Outcome
Once corrected, an e-book reader's library page lets them hear or read what the media conveys.
Who is affected
Blind and low-vision viewers who need spoken descriptions of important visuals.
Learn more
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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-Described Video Version That’s Broken or Blocked
- Talking-Head Video Wrongly Assumed to Need No Description
- Transcript Offered Instead of a Required Audio Description Track