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I remember in the early days of front-end development, one of the advices we used to give to web developers is to please not start playing the videos automatically. Well, I feel like today we have a somewhat reverse situation where, for example, Youtube starts all the videos in a “muted” state. This means that, as a screen reader user, I am missing a few or more seconds of videos while I am looking for that “mute” button (by swiping or tabbing around). (1/2)
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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Well, if you know that the video is muted or you happen to know the shortcut that mutes / unmutes, you may be in good luck, but what if you do not? #discuss (2/2)
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Andrew Hodgson
Andrew Hodgson
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I think both of these should be avoided. Put the video on the screen but let the user decide when/if they want to play it. Having the video play muted can cause problems for people with low bandwidth or low CPU power.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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This might not be YT but your browser, most browsers don't let websites play unmuted unless you click something first.
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@miki Well, I am talking about YT web mobile experience in particular, but I encountered a few embedded YT plaers with a "mute/unmute" button right inside the player.
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