- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:30:22 -0800
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>, david.bolter@gmail.com, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>, WAI-UA list <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:12 PM, David Singer wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:02 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> >>> Kenny Johar had an interesting idea when we talked about this issue last week on the task force telcon: have each UA provide a "pause all media elements" API for assistive technology products so the user can pause playback by touching a key. I like this idea because it puts control in the hands of the user, the only one that actually knows when they don't want to hear something play. >> >> >> That is a very interesting idea and I think it would be very useful to >> everybody. When my browser crashes and I reload it with all the tabs >> that were open beforehand, I sometimes have videos start playback in >> tabs that I didn't even remember I had open. It would be very good to >> have a button: "pause all media elements on any tab", which then >> avoids me having to go look through all the tabs to find the one that >> is causing the autoplay trouble. That's really a great idea IMO. > > > This is promising, but I am puzzled. If a page has a video that the site has set auto-play, no default controller, and no custom controls, and then the UA does a 'pause all', how does that UA now enable the user to re-enable play? > Maybe another UA function assistive technology products can use to "resume all media elements"? > Slight variation: 'UAs may have a setting "standard play is disabled" which means that auto-play, play(), the built-in controller, none of them can play the content. Instead, the UA must offer some affordance to control play/pause.' > Why would we disable the default controls, which require user interaction? Wouldn't "some affordance to control play/pause" include the default controls? > This is not ideal, especially for audio-only elements, where it's not obvious what affordance would work, and it is probably not obvious to the user that something *might* have played (and hence they should look for the affordance). > I don't think this works at all for a page with lots elements, or with <audio> and <video> elements are are not in the DOM. For example, what sort of UI would you expect for a page with 50 hidden audio elements? Or how is a user that can't see the page supposed to quickly find the noisy element in a page one <audio> element but lots of other elements? eric
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