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Re: Is Vimeo screenreader accessible

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From: _mallory
Date: Jul 1, 2015 12:29PM

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:05:58AM -0600, Howard Kramer wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I know that Vimeo introduced captioning with it's player last year. How
> accessible, however, is it for a person using a screenreader? Is it as
> accessible as the HTML5 player in YouTube?

I dunno about screen readers, but I've noticed keyboarding pages which
embed both kinds of videos, that I can move around YouTube videos fine
but can't seem to get at the controls of Vimeos. But I would love to
hear from others to know if this is somehow just me or what. I've also
noticed a difference between Firefox and IE but I can't remember what
those differences were at this moment (but this was with ZoomText, so
the differences might have just bee ZT being more vocal in IE than in
FF).

_mallory