#Html5 audio ipad update#

So let’s add in some JavaScript to get this working. The only issue is, our buttons don’t actually do anything yet. Hooking up our JavaScriptīy now we have already created our autoplaying HTML5 video and added our play/pause buttons. We’re on our way to having a great replacement for animated GIFs. So if the user clicks the play button the aria-pressed value will get set to true and the play button will get hidden (at least it will, when we have the JavaScript set up). What we’re doing here is hiding the play/pause button that has already been pressed. What I will explain, however, is this block of code:

Most of this should be pretty self-explanatory. We need a surprisingly little amount of CSS for our HTML5 video:

#Html5 audio ipad update#

We won’t be covering that in this post, but if enough people want a solution that goes back to the prehistoric period, then I’ll update this post. Nothing too fancy here (if you need to support browsers further back then you can add in fallbacks for rem, inline SVG etc). Here’s the CSS we need to style up our play and pause buttons. Ok, now we can start layering more styles on to get our buttons looking how we want them. This means if the browser doesn’t have JavaScript turned on or the browser doesn’t support the features we need for the JavaScript to work (we’ll look at this later), then we’ll hide the buttons as they won’t do anything. Instead of jumping straight in, let’s progressively enhance the markup we’ve created.įirst things first, let’s hide the buttons we just added if they aren’t needed:īy default, I’ve added a no-enhance class to the html element. title - will display the text when a user hovers over the button, just like the title attribute doesįor a more in-depth explanation, make sure to read.aria-label - will be read out loud by screen readers.aria-pressed - we’ll be updating this value with JavaScript to indicate if the button is pressed or not.This works great for sighted users, but not for users who rely on a screen reader. You might be thinking it’d be much easier to just change the icon between states. Why do we have a separate button to play the video and a separate button to pause the video. Ok, let’s address the elephant in the room. With that covered, let’s have a look at the markup: This can cause someones vestibular system to struggle to make sense of what is happening, resulting in loss of balance, vertigo, migraines, nausea, and hearing loss. There are many reasons someone might want to pause a video ranging from saving battery life to suffering from Support for these media elements allows Safari and other HTML5-compliantīrowsers to play the indicated source media without using a plug-in.To make our autoplaying videos more inclusive, we’re going to add play/pause buttons, so users can pause the video if they don’t want it to play. Which version of Safari are you using ? Safari supports the and media elements on iOS 3.0 and later and in Safari 3.1 and later on the desktop (Mac OS X and Windows). Any ideas? It works find in Chrome and IE. But still can't get it to work on android, IOS, and Safari.