Bellevue College

Web Publishing Guide

Standards: Rules of the Road

Web Standards are the rules of the road for college website managers and application developers.

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Requirement 12

Multimedia

Provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation. If providing time-based multimedia such as a movie or animation, provide a synchronized equivalent.

If it is not possible to make the page accessible, provide a link to an alternative page that is accessible and contains equivalent information (or functionality).
(Reference: W3C: 1.3; 1.4; 11.4; DOJ, Section 508: b; k)