What is accessible video, audio, and multimedia?
Video, audio, and multimedia are used across the College in classrooms, meetings, presentations, websites, social media platforms, and emails. Accessible video, audio, and multimedia can be used and understood by everyone. Designed with best practices that meet the needs of people with disabilities, accessible digital media works better for most people.
Time-based Media
Creators must provide alternatives for time-based and synchronized media. This includes media that is:
- audio-only
- video-only
- audio-video
- audio and/or video combined with interaction
Media can be live or prerecorded. The success criteria names tell you if a success criterion applies to live or prerecorded media.
To make it easy for authors to quickly determine which success criteria apply to their content, the type of media each success criterion applies to is included in the name of the criterion.
For audio-only or video-only media, you only need to apply the success criteria that include "audio-only" or "video-only" in their name, except that at Level AAA, 1.2.8 Media Alternative (Prerecorded) also applies to video-only media. If your media is not audio-only or video-only, then all of the other of the success criteria apply.
Success Criteria for this Guideline
- 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.4 Captions (Live)
- 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.6 Sign Language (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.7 Extended Audio Description (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.8 Media Alternative (Prerecorded)
- 1.2.9 Audio-only (Live)