Other SC
And there are two other guidelines, 1.4 distinguishable and 2.2 enough time that are kind of related
to media content.
And the first success criterion here is audio control.
An audio control basically says if there is audio on a website that plays for more than
three seconds, then you need to have a mechanism that pauses or stops that audio. Or you have a
mechanism that is available that allows you to control the audio volume independently from the
overall system volume level. Yeah. And this is super important. You don't want to interrupt
people for a long time with automatically playing audio. As I said at the beginning,
just never play audio automatically and you never have this problem.
And this is usually also like, even if you're inside this three seconds window,
the general advice is to just not do it. And then there's 2.2.2, pause to hide.
And this is basically the same success criteria and a little bit different for video content.
So this is for moving, blinking, scrolling or auto updating information.
So videos move.
So they are covered by this.
And basically for every moving information that starts automatically and lasts for more than five seconds.
and presented in parallel with other content, there is a mechanism for the user to pause it,
to stop it, or to hide it, unless this movement, blinking or scrolling, is part of an activity
where it is essential. So, for example, as part of a test or a game, there are ways that, you know,
you get around it, but on normal, like, websites, this is, like, super important.
The second auto-updating portion is not relevant to this, but that's basically for information that updates, like a new sticker or something like that.
And yeah, and the important part of these two success criterion is that these are interfering with the user's computer or using the computer so much that actually you automatically fail all the other success criteria if you fail one of those.
So it's a pretty big deal.