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From: jason@accessibleculture.org
Date: Jan 24, 2014 5:41PM

The improvements are to be applauded, but one major problem is the lack of visible keyboard focus on the player controls. Until that’s fixed, I wouldn’t say it has “full keyboard navigation and WCAG2AA support”.


Jason Kiss
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http://www.accessibleculture.org




On 25/01/2014, at 7:14 am, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> It worked well when I tested it with VoiceOver on OS X and iOS. It would be great if they’d add a checkbox on their advanced search to filter results that have closed captions.
>
>
> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com
>
> On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Whitney Quesenbery < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Vimeo has just announced that their new player has been released. It's in
>> HTML 5 and the announcement says:
>>
>> Fully Accessible
>> We doubled down on accessibility, with full keyboard navigation and WCAG2AA
>> support, and better support for screen readers.
>>
>> Closed captions & subtitles support!
>> Just go to your video’s settings page, upload your caption file, and it
>> will be available in the player. They’re supported in all desktop players,
>> Mobile Safari on iOS 7, Chrome on Android tablets, and Kindle Fire, for
>> now. We’re working hard to bring them to other platforms and devices as
>> soon as we can.
>>
>> Full announcement with an example of the player on the page:
>> http://vimeo.com/blog/post:606
>>
>>
>> More about captions and subtitles:
>> https://vimeo.com/help/faq/managing-your-videos/captions-and-subtitles
>>
>> Has anyone tried it out?
>>
>>
>> Whitney Quesenbery
>> www.wqusability.com | @whitneyq
>>
>> Books:
>>
>> - A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User
>> Experiences<http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/a-web-for-everyone/>;
>> - Storytelling for User
>> Experience<http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/storytelling>;
>> - Global UX: Design and research in a connected
>> world<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/012378591X/>;
>> >> >> >
> > >