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Re: Is Vimeo screenreader accessible

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jul 1, 2015 4:04PM

I have seen a few players that only gives access to the container itself,
vs the controls. This acts like a big play/pause/replay, and doesn't give
you access beyond that

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Ryan E. Benson

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:29 PM, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > > >