Hi Ray I've been looking at the new version of the IPlayer, and whilst I can play programmes I haven't been able to access the rewind/fast-forward functions. From what I can tell these controls are sliders which have to be moved with the mouse. If you look through the IPlayer Help there is a section on accessibility which says that the IPlayer follows accessibility standards - Hmmm!! I have already sent an email to the BBC about this. My understanding is that the Real Player streams will not be available in the UK from July 7th, as the IPlayer will detect where you are and automatically default to flash player if you are in the UK. Great! Anyway, keeping the old streams going isn't really much of a solution, as the sound quality on the Flash versions is better and we should have just as much of a right as anyone to be able to access them. I am running JAWS 9 and will try installing the latest updates to JAWS and Flash Player to see if this makes any difference, but I would also be interested to hear from users of other assistive technologies to see if there is some way round these problems. Cheers James ----- Original Message ----- From: Rays Home To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:05 PM Subject: [access-uk] New BBC IPlayer - can you work out how to use it? A mfew messages about the new BBC Player have appeared on the UK Radio list, and the default does seem to be the dreaded Flash Player albeit in the Beeb's own version. Here's the message posted recently and I do believe the Real Streams will still be available, though I'm far from clear on what's going on. The Iplayer has now launched in beta format, live streaming bit rate not increased yet. The current radio player is still the default option. If you want to try the new Iplayer I've posted the overall link, and the direct link to the radio page: Iplayerbeta homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/ Radio page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/radio Cheers Ray.