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Re: Embedded Youtube videos

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From: Sandy
Date: Jul 31, 2010 11:45AM

>> My first recommendation to a colleague wishing to include some
>> videos was to simply provide a URL to each Youtube video rather than
>> having them display within their Web page. They're pretty dead-set
>> on having the video on their page, so is there perhaps a better way
>> to do this?

My colleague Pete Bevin and I took a run at coming up with an accessible
youTube player a while ago. It can be embedded in a page.

Please take a look at

http://sandyfeldman.com/resources/ytplayer/index.shtml

I would be delighted if you found it useful.

Sandy