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Re: Does an accessible video player that works correctly in all major browsers exist?

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From: Brian Richwine
Date: Jun 3, 2014 8:48AM

Hello Dona,

You might look into the Able Player, started by Terry Thompson at the
University of Washington. There is a github project for it with a
prioritized bug and requested features list. I know several universities
have taken an interest in it and are actively working at developing it
further.

https://github.com/terrill/ableplayer

-Brian


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> My company is searching for the perfect video player for a number of US
> Government clients' websites and there does not seem to be one that works*
> in IE, Firefox and Chrome (not to mention the various versions of the
> browsers).
>
> Does one exist? If so, what is it?
>
> *By "works" of course I mean is able to be captioned, is keyboard
> accessible with and without a screen reader and works with a screen reader
> (can be paused, etc)
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dona
> > > >