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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jul 8, 2004 3:00PM

> You are experiencing one of many discrepancies between how the media
> player object interacts with different browsers. Your code is correct
> - it's just that the browsers handle the media 'plugin' differently. I
> typically recommend that media be opened in the stand-alone player
> when possible, as the players tend to have a much broader array of
> accessibility options than the embedded plugin. You can read a quick
> review of stand-alone versus embedded players at
> http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/mediaplayers/

I'll add that you might just want to add a link to the page to "view movie
in standalone player". Internet explorer users can hit the spacebar or
enter to pause/play the movie, but Mozilla/Opera users aren't able to set
the focus on the movie unless they click on it, in which case the movie can
then be paused/played from the keyboard (not an acceptable workaround!).

You might be able to set an accesskey on the movie, but then you have to
deal with accesskey issuss and communicating the correct key to the user. A
separate link to a standalone version is probably the best thing, as Jared
said.

AWK


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