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Re: Keyboard accessible HTML5 video player

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Oct 26, 2018 7:30AM

Thanks for the response Jeff!

I have raised a bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494175
against Firefox and got it duplicated. There is already an open issue on it.

- Sudheer

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 10:50 PM Jeff Gutsell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi,
> The Firefox keyboard support for the audio and video default players is
> disappointing but might be passable.
> The Enter and spacebar keys will toggle the play/pause button. The up and
> down arrow keys will control the volume. I know of no technique to announce
> the elapsed time.
>
> Jeff Gutsell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf
> Of Sudheer Babu
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:28 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: [WebAIM] Keyboard accessible HTML5 video player
>
> Hi all,
>
> First of all thanks to all the amazing people here who are helping alot on
> the accessibility issues.
>
> We have an ask where the HTML5 video player to be used which has proper
> keyboard focus on controls and also keyboard accessible.
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video
>
> The default HTML5 video player renders differently on Firefox and Chrome
> and the keyboard focus on player controls works fairly better on chrome.
>
> Can someone suggest how can the keyboard accessibility be achieved for the
> default video players on Firefox?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sudhy.
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