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Transcript Below

Hello everybody. Josh here with Online ADA, bringing

you another video covering the WCAG

accessibility guidelines. In this video we're

covering 1.4.2, audio control.

This is a level A requirement.

Let's jump into the description.

If any audio on a webpage plays automatically, for

more than three seconds,

either a mechanism is available to pause or stop

the audio,

or a mechanism is available to control audio

volume independently

from the overall system volume level.

This is

a

specific situation that I have not run into at

all in my audits.

It's generally just not a good idea to be playing

audio automatically at users. That's gonna turn a

lot of people off to the website anyway,

but if you do have a use case where that is

necessary,

this article specifically is covering any

situation where the audio plays for longer than

three seconds.

If it does play for longer than three seconds

then we need to have a control for the user, somewhere

near the top,

one of the first things on the page. It's going to

either disable it site wide,

disable it for this page

or control the volume of it independently of the

computers volume.

So,

that's really the gist of this article and

there's not a whole lot more to say about it.

Before I let you go I do want to note that there

is a note on this article from the WCAG

documentation. I'm gonna go ahead and read that.

Note 1:

Since any content that does not meet this success

criteria can interfere with a user's ability to

use the whole page,

all content on the web page, whether or not

it is used to meet other success criteria,

must meet this success criteria.

So this is a very important success criteria. A

very important article. We need to make sure

that we are not

overwhelming or innundating

users with

audio on your site that they can't control.

This is a short and sweet article, but it is

right to the point.

I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you on the

next video.