Captions, subtitles & timed text · Working

Web Video Text Tracks

Also called: WebVTT, VTT

ELI5

A web timed-text format supporting captions, subtitles and metadata cues.

Used in conversation

“The platform asks for Web Video Text Tracks in the accessibility or localisation delivery package.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Web Video Text Tracks” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.