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Add support for touchscreen monitor tap to play/pause video

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03-15-2023 01:41 PM
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PeterKnoop
MVP Regular Contributor

In most web video players (e.g., youtube, kaltura), when used on a Windows touchscreen monitor, you can tap in the area of the video to play/pause the video. It plays/pauses the video just fine when you click with a regular mouse attached to the same computer. StoryMaps seems to not be interpreting the tap on a touchscreen as expected.

Our current use cases include StoryMaps with students using touchscreen laptops and on touchscreen monitors for interactive museum exhibits. The students can use their laptop's trackpad as a workaround, however, for the museum exhibits an external mouse is not an option.

(This came up as we hoping to use click-to-play in the StoryMap video player as a workaround related to wanting to use Microsoft Edge's whitelist for autoplaying videos with sound, Auto-play of video with sound but no user controls.)

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PeterKnoop

A suggested workaround was to embed another video player (e.g., youtube, kaltura), instead of using the built-in StoryMap video player. When embedding in locations like a sidecar or map tour, there is no way to disable the "click to interact" message, which we would like to avoid.

At the moment, that message can only be disabled, and the user permitted to interact directly, when the embed is at the top-level of the story. That capability is not currently supported with embeds within an immersive block.