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Storyline Accessible Video Controls seem to make accessibility worse?
Opening this conversation up to hear everyone's opinion. Being that Storyline accessibility checker strongly suggests (based on WCAG) to enable video controls when you embed a video, I'm wondering if this is not ALWAYS the best solution.
For example, if I am a screen reader user, relying on the information provided to me through audio, and there are two timelines (the main one and the video timeline) wouldn't this cause confusion?
Furthermore, lets say you have set up some sort of visual where the video only takes up a certain amount(lets say 1/3) of the screen). On one side you have the video, on the other you have bulleted notes. Someone (using a screen reader or not) would click into there, meanwhile the main timeline is still playing!
The only conceivable idea where I think having the video controls could be applicable is when your video takes up a whole slide size running the duration of the slide.
Curious what I am missing from my thinking here, or what others think on this topic?
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I always have video controls.
Having any content that auto plays, there must be a pause button if it is longer than 5 seconds.
Having something auto play without context could be very jarring for a screen reader user as well.
I will look through some of my projects but if you have any slides as examples that you want to send my way I can do a screen reader demo of how the screen reader interacts with the content and how it reads the video player.
I'm not sure I understood the possible issue with the timeline going while someone is on the video element. Are you referring to a slide with a lot of animation? Or is there other slide audio that isn’t the video? In that case I would not have that all on one slide as that could be overwhelming for a lot of learners. (But I may be totally misunderstanding the issue so please feel free to clarify!)
I would love to hear from any native screen reader users if we have any in the group!
Hey MichaelEtzel what an interesting discussion topic! I believe elizabeth Caitlin_B NaomiWest or SamHill might have some thoughts on it.
I also want to plug the Accessibility group as an option to get more eyes on this question.
