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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Aug 3, 2010 8:39AM

Hi, Sandy,

Have you used any types of speech recognition software to access and use your YouTube player, or heard of anyone who has? I'm not a screen reader user, personally (though I do for work), but I do use Dragon naturally Speaking and find embedded videos impossible to start/view.

Thanks!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:41 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Embedded Youtube videos


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