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

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jun 3, 2014 4:23PM

Olaf,

Gary is talking about speech input aka Dragon Naturally Speaking, not
output aka screen reader. If the player has a button that has double right
facing triangles with a label of forward, a person who cannot use a mouse
wouldnt know if they would need to say "forward", "fast forward" or
something else to activate that control.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> I would like to ask - maybe for the sake of a discussion… - : if a video
> player is fully screen reader enabled - wouldn't that be sufficient for
> speech based assistive technology to get its job done?
>
> The screen reader's text to speech could read the labels of user interface
> controls, speech commands could be used to actuate a user interface control
> while it is the focus of the current selection.
>
> Youtube can have a transcript for a video - a screen reader's text to
> speech could read this out aloud.
>
> The screen reader itself would obviously have to be speech driven.
>
> Just thinking aloud…
>
>
> Olaf
>
>
> On 3 Jun 2014, at 23:04, "Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Please don't forget that an accessible video or multimedia player should
> (must/shall?) also be usable with speech recognition software, which for
> example means that I need to be able to know what the code or spoken
> command is for each of the player actions (e.g., Start, Stop, Fast-Forward,
> Increase Or Decrease Volume, Repeat, etc.) the icons either need to be
> labeled with the text or the needs to be a legend someplace easy to find on
> the screen. Some of the user speech recognition software is typically
> sighted , not using keyboard, and probably not using the mouse either.
> Therefore it is impractical to assume that they can mouse over an image or
> an icon in order to see what word appears underneath it or at the bottom of
> the screen or in the command line. For example, if I see it right handed
> arrow, what I say "click forward" or "click play". On a YouTube video, I
> haven't a clue as to what to tell the player to Skip Ad.
> >
> > The player also needs to incorporate Audio-Description - by allowing
> selection of the AD versus the non-AD version, turn on the AD (if there is
> 'closed AD'),
> >
> > http://www.howto.gov/social-media/video/508-compliant-video-guide
> >
> > Has anyone tried the Workshop
> http://www.theworkshop.co.uk/project/accessible-video-player?
> >
>
> > > >