# Permissions-Policy header — Directives

> {{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/accelerometer','accelerometer')}} {{Experimental_Inline}} : Controls whether the current document is allowed to gather information about the acceleration of the device through the {{DOMxRef("Accelerometer")}} interface.

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## Knowledge

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{{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/accelerometer','accelerometer')}} {{Experimental_Inline}} : Controls whether the current document is allowed to gather information about the acceleration of the device through the {{DOMxRef("Accelerometer")}} interface.

{{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/ambient-light-sensor','ambient-light-sensor')}} {{Experimental_Inline}} : Controls whether the current document is allowed to gather information about the amount of light in the environment around the device through the {{DOMxRef("AmbientLightSensor")}} interface.

{{httpheader("Permissions-Policy/aria-notify", "aria-notify")}} {{Experimental_Inline}} : Controls whether the current document is allowed to use the {{domxref("Document.ariaNotify", "ariaNotify()")}} method to fire {{glossary("screen reader")}} announcements.

{{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/attribution-reporting','attribution-reporting')}} {{deprecated_inline}} {{non-standard_inline}} : Controls whether the current document is allowed to use the Attribution Reporting API.

{{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/autoplay','autoplay')}} {{Experimental_Inline}} : Controls whether the current document is allowed to autoplay media requested through the {{domxref("HTMLMediaElement")}} interface. When this policy is disabled and there were no user gestures, the {{jsxref("Promise")}} returned by {{domxref("HTMLMediaElement.play()")}} will reject with a NotAllowedError {{domxref("DOMException")}}. The autoplay attribute on {{HTMLElement("audio")}} and {{HTMLElement("video")}} elements will be ignored.

{{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/bluetooth','bluetooth')}} {{Experimental_Inline}} : Controls whether the use of the Web Bluetooth API is allowed. When this policy is disabled, the methods of the {{DOMxRef("Bluetooth")}} object returned by {{DOMxRef("Navigator.bluetooth")}} will either return false or reject the returned {{JSxRef("Promise")}} with a SecurityError {{DOMxRef("DOMException")}}.

{{httpheader('Permissions-Policy/browsing-topics','browsing-topics')}} {{deprecated_inline}} {{non-standard_inline}} : Controls access to the Topics API. Where a policy specifically disallows the use of the Topics API, any attempts to call the {{domxref("Document.browsingTopics()")}} method or send a request with a {{httpheader("Sec-Browsing-Topics")}} header will fail with a NotAllowedError {{domxref("DOMException")}}. …

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