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Re: Jump directly to embedded YouTube video

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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Sep 24, 2015 9:46AM

On Macintosh Adobe flash support is very minimal most Apple centric sites tend to the Youtube site in addition to embedded players. This way html5 controls can be used.



Jonathan Cohn

> On Sep 22, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Mickey Williamson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I have a YouTube video embedded in a page using YouTube's HTML5 player.
> Nothing fancy, just copied and pasted YouTube's embed code. If I load the
> page and tab to the video player, I can access all the controls via
> keyboard as expected. However, if I attempt to use the web rotor on
> VoiceOver to jump straight to video, it puts focus on the iframe but I
> can't seem to figure out how to actually access the video controls. I
> tried shift-ctr-option + down arrow which supposedly takes me into the
> frame but I still can't figure out how to focus on the controls. Am I
> trying to do the impossible? Is tabbing to the video the only way to
> access it with VoiceOver? If that's the case, is there anything I can do
> as a developer that would allow a person to jump directly to and control a
> YouTube video?
>
> Thanks,
> Mickey
> > > >