Re: Audio control accessibility mechanisms

Thanks for all the replies, everyone. Just to clarify -- the auto-playing
video is the primary content of its page, like YouTube. We produce a lot of
videos, which each have their own page. WCAG doesn't seem to have any
exceptions for video-specific pages, as far as I can tell.

YouTube autoplays videos with sound, and as far as I can tell it doesn't
have any quick mechanism for muting the video other than the space bar
pause. Does YouTube fail this standard? If not, how are they satisfying it?

Thanks,
Eric

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:09 AM David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 11/11/2019 22:13, Eric Chima wrote:
> > My organization has a large number of auto-playing videos on its pages,
>
> Why?  I find sites that waste my internet bandwidth by doing this very
> annoying.  I also find most of them are the sort of site that fails to
> answer my question, as they generally just repeat the well known facts
> with no detail, in an attempt to catch search engine queries.
>
> I'm likely to spend my time trying to find and pause the video streams,
> not looking at any  commercial messages on the page.  I may even back
> out of the page, even though it might have answered my question, if I
> had persisted.
>
> The only pages that should autoplay are those where the video is the
> primary content of the page.
>
>