I'm not sure about other browsers, but Internet Explorer settings have a
section for multimedia on the advanced tab.
You will have the option to play videos or not. You would obviously press
the spacebar to select not to play them.
Sorry I can't help for Firefox, Chrome, Safari or other browsers, but I
would imagine that other browsers must have the same type of options.
Good luck.
Scorpio
-----Original Message-----
From: Audiobookfan
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 2:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Browsers and background audio
I'm still trying to find the best way to deal with sites like CNET which
automatically launch audio/video on their pages.
First of all, can anyone tell me what is being used to play these
things? I don't think it's Flash. Is it javascript or something else?
Someone enlightened me to the fact that control-m will stop playback in
Firefox. Is Firefox the only browser that offers this option? Can
playback be stopped in either Chrome or IE?
Finally, is there anything in any of the browsers' settings that will
block this background media? I saw something in IE that *might* do it,
but I'm not sure. I couldn't find anything in either Firefox or Chrome
that seemed to have anything to do with this.
If it matters, I'm running JAWS 18 on Windows 10 Anniversary Home
edition with the latest versions of all 3 browsers mentioned.
Thanks,
Jeff
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