March 22, 2021
Need autoplay for 508 compliance
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March 22, 2021
Need autoplay for 508 compliance
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Hi folks. We have a 508 issue with Captivate and a Federal account. With autoplay disabled by Captivate/Chrome browser, our visually impaired 508 users only have the big play button the first slide. We need audio on that slide so visually impaired people can hear, Press the spacebar on your keyboard to start the course.

How can we add audio to automatically play? Or how can we enable to autoplay function (html code? Jscode?) This is a violation of ADA 508 . Thanks

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2021-03-24 09:04:23
2021-03-24 09:04:23

While there’s ways to overwrite Captivate’s blocking of course auto play (e.g. add cp.movie.play() to the cpInit() function in the index.html), it wont help you because though the course will play, the audio will not. That’s browser security, demanding that the user interacts with the content at least once before it plays audio. And that’s not a Captivate limitation. This applies to all web sites on modern browsers these days.

Maybe there’s some JavaScript library or API or something that can capture microphone input and use that as a trigger to somehow fake a mouse click? Don’t know.

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