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From: Howard Kramer
Date: Jun 10, 2013 9:15AM

Thanks Birkir. I hadn't thought about the various issues around downloading
a file vs. playing online. And thanks for the other tips - I'll check those
out.

-Howard

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi
>
> The Nomensa player, in my experience, was very good and accessible, cudos!
> Speaking for myself as a screen reader user, I can't stand it when I
> have to download the file and open in in WMP (for one thing that
> player is not particularly accessible, at least one should not assume
> so), so I definitely would always vote for being able to play the file
> online. For one thing, one may be at a friend's computer (thanks
> NVDA), which does not have the accessible set up/config for playing
> media files locally.
> Also, and recent experience confirms this, some users give up and find
> a site inaccessible when they run into downloading issues, especially
> when the file is large.
> Being able to play the file and get a response within seconds is
> important, this really applies to all users, I recently read a mobile
> UI best practices article that emphasized fooling the user into
> thinking the phone is super responsive by starting or confirming that
> an action was successful, and then doing the rest behind the scenes.
>
> I did see a Flashplayer from 6 degrees, that was pretty accessible as well.
> If you go to
> www.blindbargains.com
> and locate some audio content (for instance the CSUN 2013 interviews),
> this is the online player they use.
> Again, I am not sure it offers something over and above the Nomensa
> one, but if you wanted an alternative player to compare against, this
> is one I know off (no affiliation, I don't even know who makes the
> player).
> Cheers
> -B
>
>
> On 6/10/13, Howard Kramer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > 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.
> >>