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Re: Media player/recorder accessibility

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From: JP Jamous
Date: Nov 15, 2018 6:39AM

Isabel,

I prefer that the Play button toggles between Play and Pause. That way, it
does announce to the user what action is to take based on what the player is
doing.

Having a stop button might be optional. In the case of Youtube, I just pause
a video and that is the same to me as stop. Less buttons to navigate through
and performs 2 different tasks. It pauses the playing, which allows me to
continue from where I left off, or it pauses the playing to allow me to read
the page or close it.

I have to agree with Glen on the progress bar and specifically the record
button. Why would you want to play if you are recording?

Also, having both present will be based on what your app specifications are.
If the app supposed to play a video by obtaining a URL from the user and you
want to capture the audio to save it, then yes you can use the record
button. However, this would have to run on the client and have access to the
sound card or extract the audio from the downloaded track.

I think if you give us more info on what the purpose is for the record
button, we can give you a better answer.



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