Wish there was a Google Chrome add-on available that would
automatically toggle the autoplay feature of all Flash and Html 5 web
players to off. If you go to a page that you do want to have the web
player autoplay function enabled, press a shortcut key combination
and it would be enabled for that visit only.
Guess someone out there will get around to creating such an add-on
like this one day. Would make surfing some sites with JAWS so much
easier (And quieter.)
At 03:34 PM 5/19/2017, you wrote:
It seems to be browser dependent. As I said, control-m will stop
playback in Firefox. I'm looking for ways to stop or block playback
in both IE and Chrome.
In IE, there are options to not download images and sounds, but will
any of these options block this embedded media? If so, which option?
Alternatively, is there an extension or add-on that might work to
solve this problem?
Thanks,
Jeff
On 5/19/2017 6:52 AM, Kenny wrote:
I agree! CNet stinks now for it auto plays some sort of info video
whennever you access resources there. It doesn't seem to be a Flash
player. Some new fancy HTML 5 player that JAWS isn't able to
recognize any controls to stop it.
At 02:46 AM 5/19/2017, you wrote:
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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