AI Avatar Videos and Accessibility

Hi StephanieDig614​ the best solution is to default to not auto playing. Otherwise, screen reader users may need to continually stop the audio/video playback on each slide before they are able to start reading the contents.

To support users who would like to use the avatar, you could include an option at the beginning of the module (and the same option can be accessed from anywhere in the course) to allow the user to select if the want to autoplay the avatar narration.

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Would you like the video avatar to play automatically?
(  ) Yes
(  ) No
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This would then set a variable "autoPlayAvatar", which is then used, on each slide, to determine if the avatar media should play. The key being, the default is to not play, but if "autoPlayAvater is equal to TRUE, play media …".

As mentioned, it would be beneficial to provide easy, accessible, access to change this decision at any point within the module.