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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Mar 7, 2013 4:01PM

I disagree with Steve. As the content provider, you should be providing the
main way to get that content as the accessible way. Making people download
a file if they need an accessible version is forcing them to do an extra
step - along the lines of seperate-but-equal. Which brings up another
point, if you have an inaccessible player, there's a better chance of
causing focus trap, so they'll never get out of the player. Therefore never
able to get to that download link. I wouldn't adopt this mindset because it
could go along with the "oh our video doesn't need to be captioned because
there is a transcript."

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Ryan E. Benson


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Steve Green
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> They are talking about the accessibility of the media player controls, not
> the accessibility of the media file.
>
> As such, I am inclined to agree as long as the native file is in a
> 'sensible' format that is well supported. It is possible to get free media
> players for most common file formats for most operating systems, albeit
> that users may well not have these installed, so it would be necessary to
> provide a link from which they can be downloaded.
>
> It would still be necessary for the media files to have captions and audio
> descriptions where appropriate.
>
> Although this solution would be technically compliant, in practice we
> often find that people do not know the keyboard shortcuts for their native
> media player. Of course there is an onus on them to learn how to use their
> machine but I suspect that most people are used to playing audio and video
> through their browser, not the native media player.
>
> Steve Green
>
>