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Re: Background music autoplaying?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 29, 2017 3:34AM

On 29/04/2017 08:28, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
> Hello,
> It sure makes hearing the screen reader difficult. If the music was a
> little fuller than a flute, then I would not be able to hear my screen
> reader at all.
> I really hate pages that start audio and don't have an obvious way of
> pausing the audio at the start of the page.
> Thanks,

See also WCAG 2.0 SC 1.4.2 Audio Control
https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-dis-audio.html

But in general, if you can avoid having autoplaying audio/music in the
first place, that'd be best.

P
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