HomeCheckpoint 1.6 - Podcasts
The podcast text equivalent or the link to it must be prominantly displayed so that it can be found
WCAG 1.0 Priority 2
WCAG Guideline 12. Provide context and orientation information.
For content to be easily accesses by the audience it needs to be clearly discoverable. Text equivalents to podcasts target a specific subset of the general web audience. These need to be located and clearly associated with the hyperlink to the podcast itself, otherwise the viewer may not realize that this extra information exists.
Requirement
Locate the podcast text equivalent information or a link to it next to each podcast hyperlink.
Recommendation
Do not group all text-equivalent information or links to it all in one place with one generic hyperlink to it. Instead, each podcast hyperlink must have next to it its own associated text-equivalent information or hyperlink to this information. This may be accomplished using HTML anchor tags and does not need a separate web page for each piece of text-equivalent information as long as an individual hyperlink exists for each podcast hyperlink.
Ensure that the link to the text equivalent is easy to find. The link to both the podcast and the text equivalent version should be placed together within the HTML with both links clearly stating what they are. Do not place the link to the text equivalent in a pop-up window that is dependent on JavaScript.
Checking Tool
View the web page containing the podcast hyperlinks to ensure a hyperlink to text-equivalent information exists for each podcast.
Information Source
The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#grouping)
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