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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Aug 16, 2017 12:15PM

Greetings, WebAIM:

Apologies for cross-posting.

Thanks to Adrian for writing this up in a way that Google will take
seriously, we hope.

If memory serves, this is an issue that's been around for a long time,
and I suspect it's been discussed here, as well as many other places.

Thanks to Laura Carlson's weekly newsletter for the excerpt, below.

Thought some of you might like to be aware. We'll see how long it takes
to see a fix.

Best,
Jennifer


Inaccessible YouTube Embeds
By Adrian Roselli.
"Most of us in the accessibility biz (do we call it that? I think we
call it that...) already know that YouTube's default embed code is
problematic. Specifically, the fact that the <iframe> does not have a
title attribute is an automatic WCAG 2.0 AA failure..."
http://adrianroselli.com/2017/08/inaccessible-youtube-embeds.html