Re: captions accessibility with screen readers.

Yes they should, in my opinion, role=“alert” aria-live="assertive”.  If you’re watching video with captions, you’re probably not interacting with the rest of the page so much. However I can see that there may be a case here for changing this depending on whether the video is full screen or not. Certainly in the case of a page with a whole bunch of captioned videos, if more than one is playing simultaneously, this would be a usability nightmare (think social media pages with lots of videos embedded), so something more subdued is needed. I don’t think I’ve seen a UX pattern for this that really works yet, but I’d like to learn more about how this might be possible.

On 17 Dec 2018, at 04:49, Sean Murphy (seanmmur) <seanmmur@cisco.com<mailto:seanmmur@cisco.com>> wrote:

Thoughts from the wider community.

I am wanting to bounce something off the community in relation to accessible media controls. Should the captions be accessible to a screen reader? When the caption is, the useability of the web page and general usage suffers due to much information.

So should the captions be accessible by a screen reader? If so, what ARIA property should be used? As ARIA-live=”polite” is to verbose.




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