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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Aug 17, 2017 2:01AM

I'm sure YouTube team will look into this. I'm sharing this post with my
contacts at Google (who were earlier part of YouTube team) to see if they
can forward the same to current team of Google. I contracted with YouTube
in 2015 and during that time, team was pretty serious about accessibility.
Hope that is being continued.

Thanks,
-Vasu

Regards,

Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Twitter: http://twitter.com/CSrinivasu/
Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://serveominclusion.com

Let's create an inclusive web!

Lead Accessibility Consultant, Informatica


On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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