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Avoid autoplaying media

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Videos, animations, and audio that automatically play can be confusing and stressful for people with cognitive impairments. Autoplaying media also makes it hard for people using screen readers to hear a page’s content.

Avoid auto play for all website media

Audio and video should only be initiated by a user action. This is especially important for media that lasts more than 3 seconds.

For how to do this in Webflow, see also Provide controls to pause all media

WCAG reference:

2.2.2: Pause, Stop, Hide

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