Ramondamedia-with-no-captions
This fails the run. Where it is wrong about your code, // ramonda-check-ignore <reason> on the line says so, and the reason is printed on every run.
Reported when a video or audio element carries no <track>, so nothing on the page says what is in it.
Everything else on a page can be read by somebody who cannot hear it. A media element cannot: its content IS the sound, and without a track there is no text of it anywhere — not for a deaf reader, not for somebody with the sound off, and not for the search index.
Add <track kind="captions" src=… srcLang=… label=… /> inside the element. For audio-only
content kind="descriptions" is the one that carries the words; subtitles is the same
file under the name most people know.
Music counts, and the answer is not captions. Its content really is the sound — that is
the point of it — but somebody who cannot hear it still has to be told what it is. A song
with words carries them as kind="descriptions", and one without needs a label beside the
player rather than a track: the title, the performer, the length. What is being asked for is
not a transcript of every sound, it is that the page not be silent ABOUT the sound.
A <video muted> is NOT reported — there is no sound to caption, which is the decorative
background loop and not this fault.
A label is taken as the answer, which is what music needs: an aria-label or an
aria-labelledby on the element silences this. An empty one does not — that is a label
written and nothing said.
Next
- All rules — the other checks this one runs beside.
- Checking your app — how to run it, and what it proves.