1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded)

Add audio descriptions to your fucking youtube videos. That means that any shit that happens in your video but isn't explicitly narrated in the existing audio needs to be described in an alternative audio track.

Kinda funny that this has been a requirement since FUCKING 2008 and yet not a single popular video platform lets you add an audio-description track to your video. You have to upload a second fucking video instead, and hope that people can find it. Because our entire fucking ecosystem is ableist.

Also this criterion technically lets you pass by providing a "media alternative" instead of an audio description track, but 1.2.5 explicitly requires audio descriptions. Because if you give WCAG any opportunity to be confusing as fuck, WCAG will oblige. Oy WCAG, NO ONE FUCKING CARES ABOUT A vs. AA. YOU COULD'VE JUST HAD ONE FUCKING CRITERION FOR AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS, BUT NO. WE HAD TO HAVE THREE.