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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 27, 2015 6:21PM

Is there a way for developers to specify that the HTML5 YouTube player
should be used for embedded content when the browser supports it?
Last time when I was looking at the YouTube accessibility (some months
ago) was that the user had to specify th html5 preference by going to
www.youtube.om/html5.
The developer could not code the video with instructions to prefer the
html5 player.
I know this does not answer the question, I will take a look at my
documentation ad see if the iFrame with Voiceover could be the problem
here.
Thanks


On 9/24/15, Jonathan C. Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>> >> >> >> > > > > >


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