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Under the HTML5 flag, browsers are bringing to our desktops or devices exciting features such GeoLocation , File , and many others such camera, microphone, system access, etc ... The Problem While this is good from possibilities point of view, the activation approach historically sucks. Flash and it's video or microphone activation shows a dialog that asks the user to authorize media access while browsers are lazily asking via JavaScript the same. The real life scenario we all know is definitively different when a page is using a screen reader, and this article and video about twitter UX should be enough to open our eyes: something is wrong . Solutions If we ever used an Android device, or we have download applications from whatever mobile store, we should be familiar with the installation warnings and confirmations we suppose to read and accept in order to grant application access to anything it needs to work properly. This simply means that once we accept we won't be both...