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Play/Pause button (Mute options) for Video Banner Widget For WCAG Compliance

Feature Requests

One of the features that would be crucial for WCAG 2.2 compliance needs and ADA compliance is the ability to easily allow the users to pause, play and mute a video for the Video Banner widget.

"Website videos must adhere to specific accessibility compliance standards, primarily under the WCAG 2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide criterion. Any auto-playing video lasting longer than 5 seconds or audio playing for over 3 seconds must provide users with an accessible mechanism to pause, stop, mute, or hide the content."

The video player widget has some default player options but the Video Banner widget doesn't have any capabilities to do this. We're using the Concept theme and their video banner has a very nice play/pause button option. I would love to see the Video Banner widget upgraded to not only feature this functionality but be able to style the button and position the button over the Video Banner. This needs to work on self-hosted as well as 3rd party hosted videos (YouTube, Vimeo).

I rather build all our pages in GemPages but because the client wants video banner headers on most pages we have had to ditch GemPages and use the Concept theme page with a ton of CSS modifications.

Posted by JakeXO ·
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  • Lucas Nguyen

    Team•

    Jun 4

    Hi @JakeXO

    Thank you for sharing this request and the detailed use case.

    We've noted the enhancement around adding player controls to the Video Banner widget, including play/pause functionality, customizable button styling, flexible positioning, and support for both self-hosted and third-party video sources such as YouTube and Vimeo.

    We'll review this with the team and evaluate how it fits into our future improvements for the Video Banner.

    We appreciate the context about your workflow and the limitations you're currently facing when building video banner sections in GemPages.


    We'll keep you updated if there are any plans or progress related to this enhancement.

    Have a nice day,

    Lucas