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From: Howard Kramer
Date: Jun 10, 2013 8:45AM

Thanks Léonie.

-Howard

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Léonie Watson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
>