- From: Jan Hellbusch <jan@hellbusch.de>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:22:41 +0100
- To: "'Patrick H. Lauke'" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> And yes, YouTube's use of SPACE as a general keyboard shortcut is, in my mind, > quite a valid choice too. While some keyboard users will argue that it's not > ideal as it prevents scrolling a page-ful at a time, I'd say its usefulness > outweighs its downside there. But as Jonathan Avila pointed out, note that this > keypress may not work with AT running (but then if the user can "quickly" > reach the play/pause control, it's not a deal breaker). "Quickly reach" a mechanism to stop audio with a screen reader running speech output is hardly feasible when web page audio is running, too. If web page audio is running and it is not what I expected/wanted/..., I usually have the choice of going back to the previous page or closing the browser window. I can find the mechanism to pause or stop the audio when the audio is completed, not before. Of course that all depends on volume settings. The Youtube solution - once known - seems to work fine with a screen reader (Windows). * JAWS: Press space bar twice and a video goes silent, press once and it starts again. * NVDA: Press space bar once and a video goes silent, press once and it starts again. My personal preference to kill web page audio would be esc, but spacebar does the job just as well. Jan -- Hellbusch Accessibility Consulting Chemnitzer Str. 50, 44139 Dortmund Tel.: +49 (231) 58054815 Mobil: +49 (163) 3369925 -- Accessibility-Consulting seit 2000 Leistungen, Bücher, Artikel: https://www.barrierefreies-webdesign.de Blog: https://www.hellbusch.de
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