I would love for a media's `autoplay` attribute to respect `prefers-reduced-motion` to make some background videos less hostile to users (care to guess what I'm working on right now?).

I see @jaffathecake is already on the case in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11605 and there's a few thoughts about compatibility — tough decision to make for sure.

I'd certainly be favour of something like `autoplay="auto|forced" where auto means no autoplay if the user has reduced motion preferences.

A way to make autoplay respect prefers-reduced-motion · Issue #11605 · whatwg/html

What problem are you trying to solve? Right now, in all browsers <video autoplay muted> will auto play even if the user has indicated they prefer reduced motion. This is somewhat reasonable, as it ...

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