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From: Mike Warner
Date: Wed, May 28 2025 2:09PM
Subject: videos in accordions
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Hi all,

while the videos work fine in our accordions and there's no issue of focus
order, etc., would you expect just non-interactive text in an accordion
panel? The accordion tab/header does not indicate that there's a video. At
least not yet. I guess that this isn't a purely accessibility-related
question, but it could possibly relate to WCAG 2.1 if videos are not
expected.

Thanks,
Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge Learning

From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Wed, May 28 2025 5:44PM
Subject: Re: videos in accordions
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On 28/05/2025 21:09, Mike Warner via WebAIM-Forum wrote:

> while the videos work fine in our accordions and there's no issue of focus
> order, etc., would you expect just non-interactive text in an accordion
> panel?

No

> but it could possibly relate to WCAG 2.1 if videos are not
> expected.

Don't see how it would (unless you're doing something annoying like
autoplaying the video as soon as the user switches to that tab, which
yeah, you shouldn't)

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