[whatwg] Autoplaying media elements not in a document

timeless timeless at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 16:22:38 PDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Chris Pearce <chris at pearce.org.nz> wrote:
> Unless there's a good reason not to, and since most browsers have
> implemented autoplay when not in a document anyway, perhaps we should update
> the spec to match the implemented behaviour?

Accessibility tools only have access to the document. This means that
they will not be able to help a user STOP, pause, play, seek a video /
audio resource.

This really isn't ok.

You can pretend DOM Inspector is an accessibility aid if you want to
experience this.



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