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

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 3, 2014 8:05PM

> What's lacking from the Youtube player these days?

Audio description support. Youtube has the great option to overlay songs
over a video with cuepoints -- but you have to use their approved song
list and last time I checked you couldn't overlay another audio file with
audio description. They are so close but yet not there yet.

Jonathan
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What's lacking from the Youtube player these days?

They have added a lot of functionality, e.g. around captioning.

Olaf



On 3 Jun 2014, at 16:33, 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
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