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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 9, 2016 8:08AM

JP, I think what you are asking is an iFrame considered an embedded part of a web page and thus you do not need to follow requirements to set the title element and lang of the page -- or is a frame considered a separate web page. It is my understanding from reading the definition of web page in WCAG 2 that an iframe would likely be considered embedded part of the parent web page and thus as such you would not need to treat it likely a separate page.

Web page
a non-embedded resource obtained from a single URI using HTTP plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or intended to be rendered together with it by a user agent
Note 1: Although any "other resources" would be rendered together with the primary resource, they would not necessarily be rendered simultaneously with each other.
Note 2: For the purposes of conformance with these guidelines, a resource must be "non-embedded" within the scope of conformance to be considered a Web page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/conformance.html#uc-web-page-head

Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of JP Jamous
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 9:57 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: [WebAIM] iframe Video

Folks,



I have a 3rd party video player embedded in a page using a frame. I have the below questions to get your thoughts on them.



1. Should the page inside the frame have <html lang="en-us"> or is it
okay if we leave that alone? Of course, it is being flagged as an error.

2. Should the same page have a title element in the head element? That
title element is being read by screen readers as the frame title. I was unable to mask it with <iframe title="Some Text">.

3. Of course, the developers added tabindex of 1 and higher to the
buttons in the video player. I have not tested this, but it should be safe to remove those and let the browser assign them. The order should remain as page links, video buttons, page links.



Thanks.