- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:46:12 +0100
- To: public-wcag-teama@w3.org
Gregg quoted a comment on guideline 1.4: <blockquote> (...) Now one can turn off Play Sounds in IE's accessibility options and the background music stops and text content is accessible without any disturbance. Therefore a feature built into user agent that interacts with the content marked up / authored in a particular way permits this minimum accessibility. If the author duplicates the browser's feature for turning off audio content, it is merely a "nice thing to have" and should not be a measure of accessibility. </blockquote> Ben wrote: <blockquote> The context for this is issue 1840 <http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=1840> In the example provided, sound only seems to play in IE, but can be easily turned off by using the escape key or UA configuration. If a UAAG conforming User Agent is in use, this is covered by UAAG 3.2 Toggle audio, video, animated images at level 1, but I think Sailesh has a good point about non UAAG conforming plugins or other embedded content here though. Should we consider bumping this to Level 1? </blockquote> If there is a proposal to promote SC 1.4.2 to Level 1, I will support it. Flash developers sometimes already provide such an option, although usually not in a way that is keyboard-accessible. It would be good to make this a standard practice. Regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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