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How to prevent screen reader users from clicking directly on video & de-syncing from timeline?
Thank you AaronBurgessAU​ , this solved it! By setting Video Tools / Options / Play Video: Automatic and then creating a trigger that basically causes a useless action when the user clicks the video (i.e. Set state of Dummy Rectangle to Normal when the user clicks Video) this prevents direct play/pause of the video when selecting the video with the keyboard. (Demonstrated in slide 1 of the attached .story file)
Interestingly (this might be a bug in Storyline) but clicking on the video with the mouse in the above configuration still pauses/plays the video, causing it to de-sync with the timeline. To workaround this, I created a 100% transparent blocker rectangle that prevents mouse clicking on the video. This, along with Aaron's solution above, seems to be a holistic solution (Demonstrated in slide 2 of the attached .story file as the Final Solution).
AaronBurgessAU​ solution - Can work. When the video is pressed it will just briefly flash, but does not pause or impact the timing. So the Video would be set to play automatically and then add a trigger to play the video when the user clicks the video.
Could the solution be
Play Video when user clicks video. This way even if a keyboard user clicks the video it just plays the video which it is already doing.