I rolled out a new version of Able Player over the weekend, and the new version (2.2.1) now supports YouTube captions and subtitles. It was already possible to use Able Player to play YouTube videos, but until now we had relied entirely on YouTube to handle captions on its own, which isn’t necessarily intuitive or […]
This is an update to my earlier Comparison of Browsers on HTML5 Video Accessibility, published two years ago. To test browsers, I used the Native HTML5 Media Player test that ships with Able Player. This test page includes an HTML5 <video> element with two <source> elements to ensure cross-browser support, one targeting an MP4 video […]
In this blog post, I have questions, not answers. However, there will hopefully be answers in the Comments section. Mac OS X version 10.10 (Yosemite) introduced two new potentially cool new features that I’m cautiously excited about. Potentially Cool Feature #1 In Accessibility Preferences, there is a new tab called “Descriptions”. In that tab, there […]
HTML5 introduces all sorts of exciting possibilities with timed text that can be synchronized with media. The new <track> element, used in conjunction with <audio> and <video>, makes it possible to add captions, subtitles, descriptions, chapters, and metadata to your media. As a musician I’m particularly interested in the possibilities of synchronizing text with audio, […]
Some software bugs are more amusing than others. For some reason I find this one to be amusing, perhaps because I discovered it on a Friday afternoon. My goal was to provide some context for a list of numeric links that appear at the bottom of a pager feature on a web page, for example […]