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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 8:01AM

On 18/03/2021 13:58, Mark Magennis wrote:
> I don't want to harp on and on about this for too long, but to me the logical thing would have been not to even mention the "starts automatically" thing. But presumably someone thought about it and decided "we need that" on the basis that manual activated functions are different and should be allowed to distract the user. I can't see why though. There's no example in the Understanding document of something not being a failure because it was not automatic.

Suggest asking on the actual WCAG github repo and see if anybody else
from the WG has any insights into the whys and hows.

P
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