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From: Greg Kraus
Date: Aug 22, 2013 4:25AM

The open source VideoJS project recently added a lot of accessibility.
It's an HTML5-based player.

http://www.videojs.com/

You can read about the accessibility at the following.

http://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/blog/2013/05/09/accessible-video-js-player-available-on-global-accessibility-awareness-day/

Greg

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Greg Kraus
University IT Accessibility Coordinator
NC State University
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Here are some links that may help.
>
> Accessible HTML5 Media Players and More Web Axe
> http://www.webaxe.org/accessible-html5-media-players-and-more/
>
> Accessibility and the YouTube Players Terrill Thompson
> http://terrillthompson.com/blog/44
>
> Embedded YouTube Test (Updated)
> http://terrillthompson.com/tests/youtube2.html
>
> nomensa-Accessible-Media-Player ยท GitHub
> https://github.com/nomensa/Accessible-Media-Player
>
>
> At 01:01 AM 8/21/2013, you wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>Has anyone done an analysis of the accessibility
>>of media players, such as Vimeo, Vzzar, YouTube,
>>etc.? I'm sure it isn't a straightforward answer
>>but if anyone can give me any pointers it would be much appreciated.
>>Of course, when I say accessible I mean support
>>for access with the keyboard and assistive
>>technologies, but also support for captions and audio description.
>>Thank you.
>>Regards,
>>Chetz
>>
>>
>>Dr Chetz Colwell
>>Learning & Teaching Development Team & co-chair
>>of H810 Accessible online learning: supporting disabled students
>>(http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/h810.htm)
>>
>>Institute of Educational Technology
>>The Open University
>>Walton Hall
>>Milton Keynes
>>MK7 6AA
>>01908 655772
>>
>>The Open University is incorporated by Royal
>>Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in
>>England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
>>
>>
>>>>>>>
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