Hero Space Component Accessibility
The [Homepage] Hero Space component has been updated with:
- support for a video transcript,
- improved focus styles,
- alt text on the play/pause button changes to match state, and
- users with reduced motion preferences enabled will now be able to play the video (it will be paused by default for these users, video should auto-play for other users).
Some of this functionality is also provided to videos loaded in the banner region of a standard page, but it will take some time for us to roll out full support for these features.
Action Required
It is recommended that all users who wish to have video on their websites take some time to ensure they have a descriptive text alternative for their video. Once this is available, please update your [Homepage] Hero Space component to link to the text alternative.
Other areas in the Crimson templates which support video will be updated to add support for a link to the text alternative. Once this functionality has been added, we will determine (and communicate) a timeline for disabling videos which do not include this information.