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From: Rosemarie Punzalan
Date: Apr 2, 2018 7:58AM

Hello,

Sarah and Lisa - thanks so much for your responses. Much appreciated and
very helpful!

Have a great week!

Rosemarie

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:19 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Rosemarie,
>
> Both are good products. I used AblePlayer and they have just updated it (I
> think the announcement was official at CSUN) to version 3.
>
> I love Able Player, but at the time I used it mobile was still a bit
> problematic. That has now changed from what they said for this newest
> version:
> https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/releases
>
> I recently tested Able (not the newest one) with Dragon and it worked well
> overall, which was nice.
>
> The other product is great too, and may work well for your project.
>
> For me, I liked Able because you could add sign language, audio description
> and a rolling text transcript with video description. I also liked the
> chapter option. I just liked the set up better for the project I was
> working on. Both are good to use and in my view some of the best for HTML 5
> viewers.
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Rosemarie Punzalan <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hello All.
> >
> > I'd like to embed a video from YouTube and/or Vimeo on a website - both
> > intranet and public. I want an accessible video player that has the
> ability
> > to navigate in and out of the player via keyboard as well as support for
> > both captioning and audio descriptions. While researching Oz Player and
> > Able Player came up from the top results. Has anyone used either of
> these?
> > If so, would be great if you can share your experience. OR are there
> other
> > methods I can use?
> >
> > Thanks inn advance for your response.
> >
> > Rosemarie
> >
> >
> > --
> > *Rosemarie Punzalan*
> > Digital Accessibility Coordinator
> >
> > *City of Los Angeles | **Department on Disability*
> > 201 N. Figueroa Street, Suite 100
> > Los Angeles, CA 90012
> > Voice: (213) 202-2759
> > Fax: (213) 202-2715
> > Email: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> > Digital Organization + Digital Accessibility = Better Internet for
> > Everyone. - Tim Frick
> >
> >
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--
*Rosemarie Punzalan*
508 Compliance Coordinator | Digital Accessibility

*City of Los Angeles | **Department on Disability*
201 N. Figueroa Street, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Voice: (213) 202-2759
Fax: (213) 202-2715
Email: <EMAIL REMOVED>

Digital Organization + Digital Accessibility = Better Internet for
Everyone. - Tim Frick


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