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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Jun 10, 2013 2:06AM

Howard Kramer wrote:
"Also, I noticed a player called Nomensa which promotes itself as an
accessible media player. Any feedback on this player?"

The company is Nomensa rather than the player (it's where I used to work).
The player is free and open source and available here:
http://www.github.com/nomensa/

It has three configurations: A config for playing locally stored files, a
config for playing YouTube content and a config for playing Vimeo content.

The UI is HTML/CSS/JavaScript/ARIA and can be customised. When I last looked
it was keyboard and screen reader friendly. Under the hood it uses different
APIs and/or engines, depending on the config.

I use it on a couple of sites if you'd like to see it in action...
http://tink.co.uk/2013/02/w3conf-2013-design-like-you-give-a-damn/
http://accesstalk.co.uk/podcast-15/

When I was at Nomensa it was a side project from the web dev team. I don't
know whether it's still under active development, but the team are usually
pretty responsive if you post a query via Github. As an open source project
help is always welcome for continuing its development.


Léonie.