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

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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Jun 4, 2014 8:39AM

Thanks everyone for your comments regarding accessible video players. I
have passed on the recommendations to my colleagues at work. We're likely
going with YouTube with customization for now since we are on a tight
deadline and many of this particular agency's Websites use it, but will
definitely look into some of the other players mentioned for the future.

Dona


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Have you seen the you describe project they now have inline description
> for
> YouTube videos
> Youdiscribe.org
>
>
> Lucia Greco
> Web Accessibility Evangelist
> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
> University of California, Berkeley
> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
> follow me on twitter @accessaces
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jonathan Avila
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 7:05 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Does an accessible video player that works correctly
> in all major browsers exist?
>
> > 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
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 4:53 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Does an accessible video player that works correctly
> in all major browsers exist?
>
> 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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