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From: glen walker
Date: Dec 8, 2022 10:46AM

Most exceptions can be quite subjective and it can be difficult if one
person says it's an exception and another says it is not.

You probably looked at the "official" definition of "essential" as used in
this guideline, but just in case:

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-essential
essential - if removed, would fundamentally change the information or
functionality of the content, and information and functionality cannot be
achieved in another way that would conform

Forcing a video into landscape mode might be needed in order to show all
the playback options on the video's toolbar (play, pause, fast forward,
rewind, advance 10 seconds, back up 10 seconds, volume, mute, captioning,
options, fullsize, etc).


On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 10:16 AM Barry via WebAIM-Forum <
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> Hi all
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> Does the WCAG 1.3.4 Orentation
> <https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/orientation.html> exception
> include video media players on mobile devices? I have seen some TV apps
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> force orentation into landscape, but I don't understand why this has to be
> so. Can anyone explain?
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> Thanks in anticipation.
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> Cheers
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> Barry
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