[Xerte] Re: Accessible media player?

Mon Dec 2 12:17:03 GMT 2013

I usually recommend that if including YouTube content then wherever possible
use the dedicated YouTube pages rather than embedding in other page types.
largely because I have seen/known problems in the past with the embedded
clip in another page types hiding the whole interface and preventing further
navigation. That only seemed to happen in IE and the non-youtube page types
but varied by version and pc etc. For example your XOT LO and the bootstrap
LO all work fine for me with IE10 e.g. can tab and play via keyboard and
don't get the problem with unintended full screen.

I don't have time to test with all browsers right now but I think the only
reliable guidance for end users really is to try a different browser if the
one you are using has problems. There are so many variables here that to
list every conceivable combination of browsers, version, page types etc
would be too confusing a list. More importantly so variable as to be
un-reliable.

HTH

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 02 December 2013 10:44
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Accessible media player?

That's helpful. Where I've been finding the problems is when we've embedded
a YouTube video in a range of XOT or Bootstrap page types using the YouTube
embed code. For example in this Construction LO (Bootstrap template) there
are three videos: http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_466

Or in XOT, the many video examples on the slides here
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=254#item1

Am I right in thinking that when you embed a video using the default YouTube
embed code it embeds an inaccessible YouTube player rather than the native
accessible player that Xerte uses - for example in the page you demoed
below?

Is there anything I could add to accessibility guidance to make a
difference?

A

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 December 2013 10:28
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Accessible media player?

Testing it myself, it works fine, example here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_9352

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 December 2013 09:22
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Accessible media player?

It's the youtube player. Does it work on the youtube site?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 02 December 2013 08:52
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Accessible media player?

Hi everybody,

I had this query come into the community site recently. It seems that the
player for embedded YouTube clips is not accessible without using a mouse.
Is there anything that we can improve this within the Xerte toolkits or is
it a YouTube issue?

This is the query I had. Any light you can shed on it would be very welcome

On an embedded YouTube clip we couldn't focus on the play button. To get
around this, could we set the YouTube to autoplay on load? I can't get
'?autoplay=1' to work within Xerte (I'm also aware that I've read about this
recently but can't find it or remember the outcome.)

Alistair 

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