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From: Stella Mudd
Date: Sep 12, 2012 3:25AM

Take a look at the tutorial: Captioning YouTube Video and Providing
Accessible Controls <http://wac.osu.edu/examples/youtube-player-controls/>;

Uses Youtube's JavaScript API to create your own accessible controls.

http://wac.osu.edu/examples/youtube-player-controls/




On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Danishkadah < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi
>
> 1. we are having a website (xhtml) when validating the code we get
> validation error about <embed src
>
> 2. see this page (http://disability-ecafe.net/node/320) embedding youtube
> video at our page with youtube embed code, it trap the keyboard in loop of
> video container and not let tab goes anywhere else. Which make our page
> inaccessible for people who navigate with keyboard. (This problem appears
> in Firfox 15, but work fine in IE 6).
>
> and at youtube site I wasn't able to access the video at all by keyboard
> navigation as tabbing jump the video.
>
> What is the standard accessible way to embed youtube video and avoid the
> above two problems.
>
> Akram
> > > >