Adapt Learning Community: Audio and Adapt

Audio and Adapt - does anyone have any ideas on how this should work in the deep scrolling world that is adapt

Do we force a user to click on the audio icon (nasty)

Control the users navigation like an old page turning piece of e-learning

Use the trickle component somehow?

Something else?

Just to get the discussion going, Mark:

Audio plays on Block load via some user controlled event. Say Trickle as you suggest (accompanied by a discrete transcript feature)
Audio manager which sits outside of the page (say in the top bar) which has controls/transcript feature and which plays an audio file for each block as it loads
Play audio when block scrolls into view and then stop if not complete stops when block is scrolled out of view – I can imagine that being fraught with trouble, mind.
Media component triggered and automatically plays when scrolled into view

One thing to note - Safari on iOS does not allow you to play audio without the user having first instigated it via a touch or click event.

I think the user only has to do this once and thereafter you can play audio without user intervention - would need to check this, though.

Also need to check whether same restrictions apply to video - I suspect they do.

That's also becoming true of other browsers i.e. Safari on OS X so a visible trigger would probably always have to be available