Thank you for this reply. I knew next to nothing about live regions. Here is the Apple Support page about them. In case it helps others.
https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/by-live-regions-vo34654/mac Thanks, Traci > On Mar 26, 2023, at 9:30 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > Autoplay is a feature fully embedded into the system preferences for a few > years now. > First open your safari settings and then click on the web sites tab. > In the first table is an item “auto play”, this will then show a list of > active tabs nd customized sites. Each will have three choices: > 1. Never autoplay > 2. Auto play always > 3. Don’t autoplay with sound. > > I believe however you were complaining bout the messages > This add will end in 5 seconds. > This is a “live region message” > Live regions can be turned off in VoiceOver utility in the web area > the specific control is "Enable Live Regions “ > Note, if you disable live regions, then some status updates that get sent to > screen reader users like the gmail announcement that you deleted a message or > the contents in a web chat the other will no longer auto speak. You can use > an activity to customize this if you need that level of control. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > > >> On Mar 22, 2023, at 1:21 PM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com >> <mailto:our4p...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi, after doing a little more Googling, the debug menu may not be available >> for Ventura. If it is, it might be in the developer’s menu. >> >> *Sighs, guess this won’t solve my ad video countdown. >> >> Traci >> >> >>> On Mar 22, 2023, at 8:06 AM, Dave Carlson <dgcarlson0...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:dgcarlson0...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Tracey, >>> >>> Just tried this, but cannot find the new debug menu anywhere. Should it >>> appear to the right of the help menu? Not sure what to the right and on top >>> means. >>> >>> Dave Carlson >>> Farfar, Oregonian, Engineer, Woodworker, Musician >>> dgcarlson0...@gmail.com <mailto:dgcarlson0...@gmail.com> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 22, 2023, at 7:57 AM, Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:our4p...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, in my continued quest to stop videos from playing and Voiceover >>> counting down this ad will stop in so many seconds, I came across this >>> idea. What do you think? >>> >>> From Mac World. >>> Safari has a debug menu that can be used to stop autoplaying video, but >>> first we need to activate the debug menu using Terminal. >>> >>> defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1 >>> >>> Close Terminal, and reopen Safari. You’ll see a new option at the righthand >>> end of the top menu bar: Debug. Click this, then select Media Flags > >>> Disallow Inline Video. >>> >>> <How to stop autoplay video in Safari & Chrome on Mac: Debug menu.jpeg> >>> >>> That’s it! 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