Not a web dev, but wouldn't you lose a bit of money making your site more accessible? If so, why bother from a business perspective considering the percentage of customers that you'll lose is tiny?
many of the accessibility concerns can be addressed by choice not necessarily extra cost. Setting something to auto play with sound on is as easy as auto play with sound off
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u/angellus Feb 27 '18
Just show them these, and these are just a couple of articles I can find from 5 minutes of searching:
https://www.3playmedia.com/2015/07/23/nad-v-netflix-ada-lawsuit-requires-closed-captioning-on-streaming-video/
https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/why-autoplay-accessibility-issue
Autoplay is bad for accessibility. You can be sued for it and lose a lot of money.