You may want to take a look at the WCAG guidelines<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#visual-audio-contrast-dis-audio>about audio playing on a website, says there should be an easy mechanism to stop/pause the audio if it runs longer than 3 seconds.
--Ryan On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Oliver Boermans <boerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Lesley, > > On 1 March 2010 00:55, Lesley Lutomski <ubu...@webaflame.co.uk> wrote: > > Thanks to all who have replied. > > > > The clients in question are a committee (first problem!), who all say > "Oh, I > > know nothing about computers/the internet" but at the same time refuse to > be > > guided. Referring them to usability articles is a non-starter, because > > they'll just not look at them. I've tried reducing the arguments to very > > basic, non-technical issues, but my powers of persuasion are apparently > > lacking. > > Maybe they need a real world example. Next meeting you have with the > committee, before they arrive, hide a couple of portable stereos in > your reception. Have them playing 'pleasant' music, simultaneously. > Let them wait a little while before you bring them into the meeting > room where you have more music playing – don’t switch it off before > they ask you to :-) > > > Given that I can't afford to turn down the work, I'll take on board the > > points folk have made here and promise to do the least-awful job on it I > > can! > > Make the point that you are in the business of building websites which > leave a positive impression on the visitors and it would be negligent > on your part; to not point out the cons of music on a page. Where the > music is not the primary subject of the content anyway. > > Failing that…I have not tried it - but something like this appears to > provide the control you would want to STOP the music: > <http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/> > > Perhaps if you added a mouseenter/focus event to a large portion of > the page which would switch it off. Once you know the visitor has had > enough of the 'ambience' of the site and is ready to learn more… > > Good luck! > Ollie > @ollicle > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
