Hi Jonathan,
The trouble with auto playback is that it can drown what the screen reader is
saying. It is not a desirable thing to have.
All the best
Steve
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Jonathan H
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can someone please test this page?
Thanks for replies - OK, the question being asked of me is: "What's the
problem"?
This post came from a conversation where a screenreader user said that if I as
I was contacting PlayBack, could I mention that their autoplay makes it
difficult for screenreader users, as he had tried to contact them and go no
reply. So I tried it myself, found the same, mentioned it as part of my email,
and got pretty short shrift in reply!
The person I was speaking who brought this to my attention uses IE and Jaws on
Windows 7. There is a recording below I just made - the first
15 seconds is what I hear with Chromevox, the remainder of the minute is with
Firefox and NVDA.
https://goo.gl/4KrvT1
The reason I posted here was in case me and screenreader user were doing
something wrong.
Looking at the page code, it looks like it is a microsoft embedded plugin so it
might be Mac users that don't get autoplay - all the controls, visibility and
so on are hidden, and the audio is set to autoplay in the background on page
load, so I cannot see any way that a user could stop the playback.
For the people who say they can hear the music AND use their screenreader with
no problem, I salute you! This would do my head in after a while :)
So my question to you would then be as follow: the embedded hidden player is
loading on page load, then there is a second visible player below with the
controls, so to get the playback controls you have to start the second visible
instance.
For the people saying there's no problem, how are you getting playback controls
working on the autostarted audio?
On 29 April 2017 at 11:29, James English <james13english@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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If you can tell me the problem you are having I could try and
reproduce on one of my different combinations of screen readers and
browsers? Otherwise it all seems fine.
On 4/29/17, Paul Holliman <paul.holliman1957@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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the page is still fully readable no problem. Have tried with
Supernova v 16.03 in IE11.
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Sent: 29 April 2017 08:48
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can someone please test this page?
What browser/screen reader are you using? And what happens if you
revisit the page having allowed that add on?
On 29 Apr 2017 8:40 a.m., "John Wells" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
I have tested this page and did not encounter any difficulties. I
could hear the audio once I had agreed to allow the add on requested.
John Wells.
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