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From: Marcelo Terreni
Date: Oct 5, 2012 8:59AM

Thanks for your feedback Ken. The options you provide seem very
interesting, I'll check them out. Anyway I think I'll give your JW
Controls forking a second chance, as we have several AD files from our
TV channels SAP system we can make use of, and none of the non-Flash
options seem to support solid AD technologies.

Thanks!
Marcelo


El 04/10/2012 5:44 PM, Ken Petri escribió:
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> As you know JWPC is a wrapper around JW Player. But it wraps an older,
> pre-HTML5-capable version of JW Player. When we wrote JWPC 2, the plan was
> to use the latest JW Player, but we gave up, as we are not Flash experts
> and the architecture of JW Player changed significantly since our first
> version of JWPC. We just re-used the old JW Player guts.
>
> As you point out, we make a couple of calls that allow us to check state on
> captions and audio description. In the old JW Player, this was a pretty
> easy thing to do. We added a couple of listeners and callbacks to the code
> and recompiled. Just couldn't figure out how to do this on the new version,
> so we stuck with the old JW Player. Unfortunately, I don't have the old JW
> source code we modified any more.
>
> Also, there will be no new version of JWPC. We had a project going for a
> while, but we ran into funding and staffing problems and pulled the plug.
> To be honest, if I were going to tackle it again, I don't think I would use
> JW Player. The JavaScript API has gotten pretty bulky. There are a couple
> of good projects with accessible players out there. Forking either
> Nomensa's player or the one in the WET Toolkit could be a good path, maybe.
> And as far as general universal platform playability and features go, I
> really like mediaelement.js. mediaelement.js is not terribly screen reader
> friendly, but it's light and very nicely architected.
>
> Best,
>
> ken
> --
> Ken Petri
> Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Marcelo Terreni < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm trying to build a JQuery version of the very impresive JW Player
>> Controls Version 2, maybe the best accesible web video player available.
>>
>> I'll be using JQuery because we already use YUI and JQuery all through
>> our sites and a third framework would be too much. Besides I'm trying to
>> provide a better non-javascript/non-Flash suppport (that was easily
>> solved, I'll send a link when everything is up and running) and change
>> the controlbar's "toollbar" role (while adequate, it may make things a
>> bit more difficult unnecessarily for "keyboard / non screen reader" users).
>>
>> As far as I'm concerned people at OSU WAC and Webhipster LTD. had to
>> modify the captions / audiodescription plugins to provide some
>> previously unavailable JWPlayer / JS API communication. I detected
>> they've created a couple of controls for that:
>>
>> |togglecaptions
>> captionstate
>>
>> |but I wasn't able use them trough jwplayer(id).getPlugin("captions").
>> ¿Any clue?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Marcelo Terreni
>>
>> Educ.ar S.E.
>> Web: http://www.educ.ar
>> Ministerio de Educación
>> Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA) - Argentina
>>
>> >> >> >>
>>
>>


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