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From: James Crone
Date: Jul 12, 2017 11:52AM

Facebook recently introduced a feature for pages where the cover image
could be a video instead of a static image. This appears to fail WCAG
criterion 2.2.2 as the "motion" lasts longer than five seconds (Facebook
requires these videos to be greater than 20 seconds) and there is no
ability to pause the video.

One of our departments has requested that we help them update their page so
that the cover image is now a video. I would classify this request as more
of wanting to take advantage of the new video option just to have the
latest/greatest since it is available rather than it being appropriate.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this particular topic? I an also
interested in potential liability issues we may have if we go the video
route that is not compliant rather than staying with a static image. I
realize it is Facebook and we don't have full control over the platform
like we do on our website. However, something feels wrong if you knowingly
contribute content to a site (ie: Facebook) that then makes the page
non-compliant with WCAG when you have an institutional policy stating that
we adhere to WCAG at the AA level.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and input.

Best,
Jim

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