Speaker language identified

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Normative Text

When more than one language is spoken in audio content, the language spoken by each speaker is identified in all media alternatives.

Except when

Words are used incidentally.

Tests

This section is non-normative.

Language identified in transcripts

Procedure

For each transcript that includes multiple languages:

Check that part(s) using a language different from the original language is programmatically determined in the media alternatives.

Expected results

#2 is true.

Tests

This content needs to be written.

Key Terms

accessibility support set: group of user agents and assistive technologies you test with

The AGWG is considering defining a default set of user agents and assistive technologies that they use when validating guidelines.
Accessibility support sets may vary based on language, region, or situation.
If you are not using the default accessibility set, the conformance report should indicate what set is being used.
accessibility supported: available and working in the user agents and assistive technology in the accessibility support set

The working group intended to include a default accessibility support set. See Default accessibility support set #277.
ASCII art: picture created by a spatial arrangement of characters or glyphs (typically from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII)
audio: live or recorded sound signal
audio description: narration added to the soundtrack to describe important visual details that cannot be understood from the main soundtrack alone

For audiovisual media, audio description provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, on-screen text, and other visual content.
Audio description is also sometimes called “video description”, “described video”, “visual description”, or “descriptive narration”.
In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue. See also extended audio description.
If all important visual information is already provided in the main audio track, no additional audio description track is necessary.
captions: synchronized visual and/or text alternative for both the speech and non-speech audio portion of a work of audiovisual content

Closed captions are equivalents that can be turned on and off with some players and can often be read using assistive technology.

Open captions are any captions that cannot be turned off in the player. For example, if the captions are visual equivalent images of text embedded in video.

Audio descriptions can be, but do not need to be, captioned since they are descriptions of information that is already presented visually.

In some countries, captions are called subtitles. The term ‘subtitles’ is often also used to refer to captions that present a translated version of the audio content.
content: information, sensory experience and interactions conveyed
descriptive transcript: a text version of the speech and non-speech audio information and visual information needed to understand the content
extended audio description: audio description that is added to audiovisual media by pausing the video to allow for additional time to fit in the audio description

This technique is only used when the sense of the video would be lost without the additional audio description and the pauses between dialogue or narration are too short.
human language: language that is spoken, written, or signed (through visual or tactile means) to communicate with humans

See also sign language.
media alternative: alternative formats, usually text, for audio, video, and audio-video content including captions, audio descriptions, and descriptive transcripts
non-text content: any content that is not a sequence of characters that can be programmatically determinable or where the sequence is not expressing something in human language

This includes ASCII art (which is a pattern of characters), emoticons, leetspeak (which uses character substitution), and images representing text
programmatically determinable: meaning of the content and all its important attributes can be determined by software functionality that is accessibility supported
sign language: a language using combinations of movements of the hands and arms, facial expressions, or body positions to convey meaning
text: sequence of characters that can be programmatically determined, where the sequence is expressing something in human language
text alternative: text that is programmatically associated with non-text content or referred to from text that is programmatically associated with non-text content

An image of a chart is described in text in the paragraph after the chart. The short text alternative for the chart indicates that a description follows.
video: the technology of moving or sequenced pictures or images

Video can be made up of animated or photographic images, or both.