- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:00:38 +1000
- To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html-a11y@w3.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:44:33 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> NOTE: This could be enabled through encouraging publishers to us
>> @autoplay, encouraging UAs to implement accessibility settings that
>> allow to turn off all autoplay, and encouraging AT to implement a
>> shortcut key to stop all autoplay on a Web page.
>
> Note that Opera already has a user preference for disabling autoplay, see
> opera:config#Multimedia
Nice one!
> As for stopping all playing elements, that is not related to autoplay, since
> to be effective it would also have to stop elements that were started by
> scripts.
Our assumption was that it was not possible to stop script created "autoplay".
> Possible solutions here are:
>
> 1. Requiring explicit approval for all media playback, with the possibility
> of remembering approval per domain.
>
> 2. Exposing a list of all media elements associated with a document to
> scripts so that extensions could find and pause all media elements.
> Currently this is not possible because elements can be created by scripts
> and set to play without being inserted into a document, so e.g.
> document.querySelector('audio,video') does not find them.
These are both good ideas. Would it be possible to get them through
plugins? Or do they need a JS API?
Silvia.
Received on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 10:01:26 UTC