[mediaqueries] Discover muted state
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Description
Most media queries are about graphics, video, color and other display characteristics. Since media types have been found to be too broad to be useful, the sound-related speech and aural are among the deprecated ones.
However, even if your styles only cover visual aspects, it can still be useful to know whether the user will hear any sounds on the site at all, e.g. when deciding whether (and how) to show video subtitles automatically. I therefore propose a new media query for that, e.g.:
sound-volume: mute | quiet | loud | auto
This is different from #3933 and #3821 which deal with the state of media elements, not the browser, window or tab as a whole.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the proposed sound-volume media query and the Media Queries Level 5 media-type section cited in the issue. Compare the proposal with issues #3933 and #3821, which address media-element state. Done would require a resolved design and CSS Working Group consensus, not a clearly identified file or test change.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100