King County COVID19 - Bug: YouTube video accessibility

[missmatsuko]

Issue Summary

Some issues related to the YouTube video embedded on the King County Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) page.

1. Video lacks voiceover or captioning, so blind and screen reader users may not be able to access the content. Most of the information is in the text directly to the right of the video, but not all.

2. Some parts of the text embedded in the video have insufficient contrast. For example, this white on yellow and yellow and white text reading "Together, we can slow the spread of COVID-19". The yellow is #EED146 and white is #FFFFFF. The contrast is about 1.51:1, failing WCAG contrast requirements.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to the King County Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) page.
2. Play the COVID-19: Stay Home YouTube video, which is located at the beginning of the page content.
3. Note colour contrast issues, lack of voice-over, lack of captions.

Behavior

The full video content may not be accessible for people with visual disabilities.

Expected behavior

The full video content should be accessible for people with visual disabilities.

Actual behavior

Video has contrast issues and lacks captions and voice-over.

Versions

Device Information:

• OS: [e.g. Windows, Mac iOS]
• Browser [e.g. chrome, safari]
• Version [e.g. 22]

Screen Reader or AT Information

• [e.g. JAWS 2020.2003.13]
• [e.g. NVDA 2019.3.1]

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Code

Current Code

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Specifications

• WCAG Principal:
• WCAG SC:
• Severity: Fairly minor, since most of the information is in text next to the video and the rest isn't super critical.

Additional References

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[alboss]

We will pass this along to the content creators for Public Health. Changing a video after the fact is a challenge even when one isn't in the throes of a pandemic, so I don't know that we will be able to fully fix the issues identified--but it's great information for them to have for the future.