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Re: [EXTERNAL]SC 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide - meaning of "starts automatically"

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 18, 2021 7:14AM

On 18/03/2021 12:54, Mark Magennis wrote:
>> I would assume the rationale is "well, if you find it distracting, just don't do it", and in part "it's not jumping at you/surprising you, you know what you're in for".
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> That can't be the rationale. WCAG would not sanction an approach of "If a function causes the application to be inaccessible to some users then tell them not to use it". Or "They should have know that this might prevent them from doing any other work, so that's okay".

The likely simpler answer is: nobody thought of that scenario when the
SC and its understanding docs were written up... (as we so often find
when we start poking hard at SCs and it turns out that "nobody could
have foreseen this...")

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