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

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jun 4, 2014 9:01AM

Ryan,

On 4 Jun 2014, at 00:23, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Olaf,
>
> Gary is talking about speech input aka Dragon Naturally Speaking, not
> output aka screen reader.

please be aware that a screenreader is not the same as a text to speech feature. Instead, a screenreader works in both directions:
- retrieve info on the screen and present it (using text to speech, Braille, …)
- provide some mechanism to act on a currently selected user interface control

The "act on a currently selected user interface control" could be driven by speech input.

The fact that Dragon Naturally Speaking does not currently take advantage of this does not invalidate the concept.

I think it is important to begin to see more clearly that we [the community interested in accessible IT] should work towards an architecture, where a general purpose accessibility layer sits between the application / content one side, and the tool used to interact with the application / content on the other side. It is not a good idea to teach each and every AT (whether Dragon Naturally Speaking or any other) to be able to interact with specific applications (a certain browser, or a certain word processor, or…. ) or specific content/file formats (a certain version of HTML, Word, PDF, …).

> 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.

if the button is accessible it will have an alt text or similar information - which is all that's needed in my scenario.

Olaf