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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Aug 9, 2012 7:05AM

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, James Bailey wrote:

> Can a keyboard-only user get focus of a video in Youtube (not imbedded)? I knows JAWS offers a keystroke, but I think that's JAWS and not available to the keyboard user. I checked the archives and a discussion from last year was not promising. Has this situation improved? I know once the player has focus it's pretty accessible. It's getting the focus I'm asking about.

In IE, yes. In other browsers, not as far as I can tell. I
thought it might be better in the HTML5 version of youtube but
no, doesn't seem to be, at least not in Firefox.

Though apparently the player isn't keyboard trapping anymore in
any broswer, so that's a net win.

-Deborah