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Re: Accessible YouTube Player in lightbox?

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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Aug 27, 2013 7:18AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:

> Last time we (Nomensa) updated the media player Youtube didn't provide
> captions via the API, so we could only include captions for local files.
>
> I can't actually tell from the bug what the status is, but perhaps that is fixed now?

I found another ticket asking for captions in the API that had been merged into Issue 1723. It's status is "WontFix": " It's unfortunately not a matter of reconsidering the importance. This is a policy decision." (Oct 3, 2011)
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id23

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