| Title | Background sound with proprietary bgsound element |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing a reference to sound via the proprietary bgsound element. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (johannes.koch@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-11 |
| Status | rejected QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
Feature: bgsound
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/BGSOUND.asp.
The test case is intended to pass because the sound can be stopped by activating IE's UI stop control.
Three or more accessibility experts.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 5, column 5) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#visual-audio-contrast-dis-audio.
Background sound can be stopped by activating IE's UI stop control. (In Firefox, the background sound may not play in all configurations, but user testing showed that if the sound plays, it cannot be turned off in Firefox.)
The proprietary bgsound element causes plays a sound that can be stopped by activating IE's UI stop control.
The test case passes (line 5, column 5) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#visual-audio-contrast-dis-audio.
Background sound can be stopped by activating IE's UI stop control.
The proprietary bgsound element plays a sound that can be stopped by activating IE's UI stop control.
Microsoft introduced the bgsound element with Internet Explorer 2.
The src attribute specifies the URL of the audio file (WAV, AU or MIDI);
the loop attribute specifies the number of times the sound will play (positive integer or 'infinite').
Internet Explorer 4 also added support for the attributes balance, delay, and volume.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 5, column 5: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20050211/#4.1_use-spec-document-backward-compat-violations.
The file is not valid.
The bgsound element is not a legal element in (X)HTML, so the file does not validate.