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From: Ken Petri
Date: Aug 9, 2012 9:50AM

The HTML5 version in Chrome and Firefox is keyboard accessible. You can get
to all of the controls including volume and movie slider. The slider moves
by five second increments on right/left up/down arrow key presses. Keyboard
focus is indicated by a fine white dotted line around the controls.

You need to join the HTML5 Trail
http://www.youtube.com/html<;http://www.youtube.com/html5>;5
to get videos in the HTML5 player. Join the trail (toward the bottom of the
screen) and then browse from that page to set up your YouTube account to be
part of the Trail.

The Flash version in IE is keyboard accessible. Other browsers when using
the Flash version don't interact with the player. Keyboard focus is
indicated by the default yellow box surrounding the focused control.

With NVDA or JAWS and Firefox and the HTML5 version, screen reader
accessibility is pretty decent. The only real trick is that you need to go
into the passthrough mode in the screen reader in order to move the
sliders. But then the movie slider is nicely responsive. It reports the
percentage and the progress in minutes and seconds out of the total movie
time.

With IE + Flash player, screen reader accessibility with JAWS is
serviceable. Controls are announced for the most part, though the movie
slider tends to announce itself incorrectly. Honestly, I'd say the HTML5
version is a bit better with the screen reader.

I really wish there were a way to not have videos start playing on page
load, though.

ken
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:05 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > >