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From: Randi
Date: Apr 29, 2009 5:40PM

Tom,

WOW BRAVO! I love it. I absolutely love it!! Where do I start? I went
to the search box and typed the first thing that came to mind. An
audio of Dr. Demento Boulbous Bouffant. I know I didn't spell it
right, but it took me straight to it. This thing has made me laugh for
years and I haven't heard it in years. I listened all the way through
before exploring.

I absolutely LOVE that I can start it and pause it and skip at my
will. As you know, that is not possible on youtube and I've discussed
this with other blind people as well. I am going to share this on
another list I'm on and ask them to give you feedback as well.

I LOVE that its not cluttered. I love that there aren't all those
headers. The comment section is nice but I never really read those
anyway haha. I didn't explore the next ten option at all but I will
play with it again. I've already bookmarked it.

Twho things that I would add. I could hear the controls pretty well
over the video until the video got a little loud. I have Voiceover set
to maximum volume, but the video still kind of drowns out the
controls. So if there would be a way to add volume control for the
video too, that would be great. If its there, I missed it in my
excitement. Also, a feature I missed was the embed links and such, for
putting a video on Facebook. This is solved easily enough by just
copying the URL like I did:

http://tube.majestyc.net/?v=cMfmzEpvW-http://tube.majestyc.net/?v=cMfmzEpvW-g

I pasted it to see if the link works.

Other than that, I can't think of anything to add right now. I know
someone did accessibletwitter.com for the same purpose, so will you do
something like that with this? I would hate to see you stop after your
dissertation. You are going to be valuable to us, I gotta tell ya.
Please don't ever take it down tee hee.

Excellent!
Randi

On 4/29/09, Randi < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Thank you for clearing that up. I will go check it out. I also wanted
> to comment that having a search box easily found is nice. I like it at
> the top of the screen. Though I suppose some people might browse
> through header links and then search if they don't find something.
> IDK, but I like it up top. I'll go check it out now.
>
> On 4/29/09, John E. Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Curious project Tom. But I am wondering why you limited the accessibility
>> question to only people with visual disabilities.
>>
>> There are a number of people with hearing disabilities using YT. Many use
>> the YT videos to communicate with others via sign language - sort of
>> "sign
>> language blogs." Yet, the vast majority of YT content is not captioned,
>> transcribed - nor has a signed component.
>>
>> YT does have the capacity (now) to add captioning and in fact I created a
>> YT
>> video with captioning as a test. But when I viewed this video using your
>> "accessible YouTube" interface, there was no way to turn the captioning
>> on
>> making is thus, less accessible. Is there a way to adapt your system to
>> include the captioning if it so exists on a particular YT video?
>>
>> Good luck with you dissertation.
>>
>> ~j
>>
>> John E. Brandt
>> Web Design, Development, Consultation
>> Augusta, Maine USA
>> www.jebswebs.com
>> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> 207-622-7937
>>
>>