What do Xbox Accessibility Guideline 104 and the Game Accessibility Guidelines require for subtitles and captions in games beyond linear-video rules?

Xbox Accessibility Guideline 104 asks for subtitles for all spoken content with speaker identification and spatial cues, independent on/off toggles for caption types such as dialogue, background dialogue and ambient sounds, lines of no more than about 40 characters, at most two lines, and text scalable to at least 200% of the default; the Game Accessibility Guidelines give 40 characters per line, two lines (three exceptionally) and a 46px-at-1080p minimum size. Curator qualifications: Correction: 'conversation, bark, cinematic' toggles are XAG's example from The Outer Worlds, not the guideline's own category list. Comparison with Netflix 42 / BBC 37 characters (F1) relies on other sources not re-read here; platform-settings default and background-opacity details not re-read verbatim. Guideline text only. Limitations: Guidelines, not certification requirements (XAG is advisory per Microsoft framing, not re-read). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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