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From: Rick Hill
Date: Mon, Aug 26 2013 5:15PM
Subject: Accessible YouTube Player in lightbox?
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We need to display captioned YouTube videos in a lightbox (not just embedded in the page).

Looks like the only solution is to display the player tools external to the YouTube player through the YouTube API to make them accessible. As in:

http://simplyaccessible.com/article/keyboard-accessible-youtube-controls/

Or http://wac.osu.edu/examples/youtube-player-controls/
Or maybe https://github.com/nomensa/Accessible-Media-Player

And others.

Questions … anyone done this in a lightbox window? How to get the lightbox window to gain focus when it opens and keep the focus in the player window while open. How to not only provide access to the payer controls (play, volume, cc) but alos access to close the [player window and return focus to the appropriate location in the calling page?

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Tue, Aug 27 2013 2:51AM
Subject: Re: Accessible YouTube Player in lightbox?
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Rick Hill wrote:

> We need to display captioned YouTube videos in a lightbox (not just
> embedded in the page).
>
> Looks like the only solution is to display the player tools external to
> the YouTube player through the YouTube API to make them accessible.


Last time we (Nomensa) updated the media player Youtube didn't provide
captions via the API, so we could only include captions for local files.

I can't actually tell from the bug what the status is, but perhaps that is
fixed now?
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?idD4&can=1&q=label%3AAPi-YouTube%20captions&colspec=API%20ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Stars%20Summary

I don't think we've tried it in a lightbox, but you are essentially just
combining two difficult to-do things in one interface!

Once you have the player sorted out, focus on the lightbox, a couple of
examples from recent threads:
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/Modals/Modal%20(Internal%20Content%20Shell)/demo.htm
http://examples.simplyaccessible.com/modal.js/

Hth,

-Alastair

From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Tue, Aug 27 2013 7:18AM
Subject: Re: Accessible YouTube Player in lightbox?
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Alastair Campbell wrote:

> Last time we (Nomensa) updated the media player Youtube didn't provide
> captions via the API, so we could only include captions for local files.
>
> I can't actually tell from the bug what the status is, but perhaps that is fixed now?

I found another ticket asking for captions in the API that had been merged into Issue 1723. It's status is "WontFix": " It's unfortunately not a matter of reconsidering the importance. This is a policy decision." (Oct 3, 2011)
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id23

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