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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Wed, Aug 16 2017 12:15PM
Subject: Inaccessible YouTube Embeds
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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

From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Thu, Aug 17 2017 2:01AM
Subject: Re: Inaccessible YouTube Embeds
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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 ADDRESS 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
>
>
> > > > >

From: JP Jamous
Date: Thu, Aug 17 2017 2:16AM
Subject: Re: Inaccessible YouTube Embeds
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I hope they get it resolved soon. We face this quite a bit at work.

It is a big deal as far as being level AA compliant.