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Re: Question on descriptive control labels

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From: Geethavani.Shamanna
Date: Apr 19, 2022 4:37AM

Hi Kian,

When there are multiple audio players with transcripts on a page, it would be useful to use the Show/Hide Transcript button to display transcripts in each of the audio players. These buttons will be displayed when the concerned audio is in focus.

I have come across pages with multiple audio activities, and the players are often not appropriately labelled. I would be interested in a practical solution to deal with this issue. One solution would of course be to embed each of these players within an iFrame, and then appropriately label the iFrames.

I have also come across instances where the Transcript button is embedded within the media player. On clicking the Transcript button, the screen reader reads out the entire transcript. However, since the screen reader automatically switches to the Application mode when navigating the media player, it is not possible to read through the transcript line by line or sentence by sentence. Purely from an accessibility perspective, is it good practice to disassociate the transcript button from other media player controls and make the transcript available outside the media player?

Many thanks.
Geetha