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From: Sofia Celic-Li
Date: Tue, Jun 29 2010 6:48PM
Subject: Business.gov 508 compliant player?
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Hi everyone,
Business.gov offers a video player that is claiming to be 508 Compliant but
I am having some trouble with its keyboard accessibility for sighted
keyboard users.
You can access an example at
http://www.business.gov/about/features/508-video-player.html.
I have trouble increasing the volume and am unable to turn captions on by
keyboard alone. This is via using the tab key to navigate to the
corresponding controls and activating them.
It is worth noting that screen reader users have access to hidden links to
control the video so this user group is catered for well.
Their administrator claims to not have the issues I have described. Is
anyone else able to try this out and report back? It is a Flash based player
and keyboard access in Firefox is not accounted for, so use Internet
Explorer.
Thank you!
Sofia
From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Tue, Jun 29 2010 8:54PM
Subject: Re: Business.gov 508 compliant player?
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I can see fine, but I can't operate it on my Mac. :-(
Cliff Tyllick
Web development coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512/239-4516
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>>> Sofia Celic-Li < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > 06/29/10 6:51 PM >>>
Hi everyone,
Business.gov offers a video player that is claiming to be 508 Compliant but
I am having some trouble with its keyboard accessibility for sighted
keyboard users.
You can access an example at
http://www.business.gov/about/features/508-video-player.html.
I have trouble increasing the volume and am unable to turn captions on by
keyboard alone. This is via using the tab key to navigate to the
corresponding controls and activating them.
It is worth noting that screen reader users have access to hidden links to
control the video so this user group is catered for well.
Their administrator claims to not have the issues I have described. Is
anyone else able to try this out and report back? It is a Flash based player
and keyboard access in Firefox is not accounted for, so use Internet
Explorer.
Thank you!
Sofia
From: deblist
Date: Tue, Jun 29 2010 9:00PM
Subject: Re: Business.gov 508 compliant player?
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Sofia wrote:
> Their administrator claims to not have the issues I have described. Is
> anyone else able to try this out and report back? It is a Flash based player
> and keyboard access in Firefox is not accounted for, so use Internet
> Explorer.
I tried using it in Internet explorer (and forcing a specific browser is an accessibility nightmare, that's beside the point), and failed. Sometimes I could control the volume with the arrow keys, but sometimes the arrow keys would spontaneously pop out of the volume control and start moving around the rest of the flash object. And every time I hit "space" over the pause button, it would pause for a fraction of a second and then start up again.
(For reference, I am a sighted voice/keyboard only user. And I do NOT use Internet Explorer.)
-Deborah
From: Sofia Celic-Li
Date: Thu, Jul 01 2010 11:21AM
Subject: Re: Business.gov 508 compliant player?
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Thank you for taking the time to look at this issue Cliff and Deborah!
From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Thu, Jul 01 2010 12:15PM
Subject: Re: Business.gov 508 compliant player?
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I would let them know you are having trouble accessing the video.
Nancy
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Sofia Celic-Li < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to look at this issue Cliff and Deborah!
>
From: Sofia Celic-Li
Date: Thu, Jul 01 2010 5:03PM
Subject: Re: Business.gov 508 compliant player?
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Thanks, Nancy. I already did that. They claim to not be able to reproduce
the issue. Hence my request here to confirm or refute my findings.
Sofia