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Fix Video Background Accessibility issue by adding aria-hidden to the video tag indicating a removed element from the accessibility tree

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Created on 13 June 2022, about 2 years ago
Updated 4 April 2024, 3 months ago

Problem/Motivation

When Using a background video accessibility checkers flag it as needs checks for captions as the video is not removed from the accessibility tree and we should have an aria label on it indicated that the video is purely for decoration.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Add a background video section
  2. Using assistive technologies it announced the video element

Proposed resolution

add aria-hidden="true" to the video tag indicating that this element should be removed from the accessibility tree.

Remaining tasks

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User interface changes

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API changes

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Data model changes

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🐛 Bug report
Status

Fixed

Version

1.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States emerham

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