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: Are YouTube videos WCAG 2.0 compliant? When embedding a YouTube video on a organisation's website, what is necessary to make this accessible and WCAG 2.0 AAA compliant? It's my understanding that

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When embedding a YouTube video on a organisation's website, what is necessary to make this accessible and WCAG 2.0 AAA compliant?

It's my understanding that closed captions (toggleable subtitles) are a necessity. While YouTube can auto-generate these captions, it can have mistakes which reduce your compliance. If these captions are edited for correctness, is that enough?

Or is a full transcript required?

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@Holmes151

From my reading of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines, closed-captions are enough to meet some of the guidelines at Level A, however Level AAA (and possibly AA also?) appear to require a text alternative that is not time-based, meaning you need to provide a text transcript that the user can read at their own pace (unlike captions, which forces the user to read quite quickly).

(Think of a person new to English who can only decipher words very slowly.)

Refer to: www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#media-equiv

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