Every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours of video on YouTube, with 300 hours of new video uploaded every minute (source: YouTube Statistics). Very few of these videos are captioned, which means there are huge volumes of information being shared by our society, and people who are deaf or hard of hearing are […]
I received two ads this week from accessibility-related vendors, one in the mail and one via Facebook on my phone. The one in the mail was from Nuance and was an ad for Dragon Professional, the speech recognition product that enables people to dictate documents and use their computers hands-free. The ad features a very […]
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 […]