More distraction examples

I took an action to draft some additional distraction examples that included audio or haptic content.  Here is my first draft. As usual, it raises (for me) additional questions.

Example:
An audio clip is played each time a step in a sequence of steps on a set of web pages is completed. Some users may find this sound distracting.
<audio src="step-complete.mp3" data-distraction="sensory">

// should this be a JavaScript example? That will require more code and potential setup. Implementors are not likely to use an <audio> element to implement the above example.

Example: 
Haptic feedback is provided when items are added into a shopping cart. The user's device is fixed onto their wheelchair and the haptic feedback is distracting because it rattles the device within the mount. 

//I'm not sure how to provide an example here, do we need one? And, in theory this kind of feeback should not be automatic but should have an option for the user to enable/disable. If someone is going to make the effort to add personalization they should already be aware enough to make this feature optional. 

It also seems that we may need to split sensory into separate categories to distinguish them.  Someone who is distracted by haptic feedback may not be distracted by audio feedback. The current version of the spec does not distinguish between the various types. 

Suggested additional values:
visual (or sensory-visual): Non-essential distracting content that includes movement or other forms of visual feedback. This includes: moving images (videos, animated GIFs,etc.); content that starts automatically or is automatically updating; and elements that change locations.
audible (or sensory-audible): Non-essential distracting content that includes sound or other forms of audible feedback. This includes audio, multimedia, or other sounds that play automatically.
haptic (or sensory-haptic): Non-essential distracting haptic feedback, braille rendering, or other forms of physical motion.
other (or sensory-other): Used for emerging non-essential distracting content not covered by visual, audible, or haptic.

Becky Gibson
Sr. Accessibility Strategist
Knowbility.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:30:17 UTC