Able Player: A Fully Accessible Media Player

First, A Shameless Plug

Second, a more relevant plug: CSUN

Media Players in HTML5

A more complete <audio> tag

A more complete <video> tag

A closer look at <track>

Different kinds of <track>

WebVTT Format

Browsers' default media players all look different

And some are more accessible than others

Able Player

Supports captions & subtitles

Supports audio description (two ways)

Auto-generates an interactive transcript from captions & descriptions

Supports chapters

Supports user preferences

Captions Preferences

Descriptions Preferences

Keyboard Preferences

Transcript Preferences

Supports Sign Language (with data-sign-src)

Supports Search (with data-search & data-search-div)

Able Player HTML

Able Player for YouTube

Making use of data-* attributes

See it live at uw.edu/doit/video

Coming Soon!