[access-uk] Re: New BBC IPlayer - can you work out how to use it?

James, no doubt my knowledge of what's going on here is less than it should be, 
but with the old stand alone REal Player you could use control right/left 
arrows to move forward and back in a on-demand stream.  I guess what you are 
suggesting is the same approach as in the BBC Player.

It seems a Real shame - sorry about that - that the Beeb seems to be showing 
less commitment to accessability now as to launch this thing without propper 
accomodation of our right to have the same flexibility in access as other users.

Anyone thinking of contacting In Touch?  Well, you can try, but they're an 
ignorant bunch of so and so's at best.  Another case where mainstream consumer 
rights programmes should be interested in disability access rights, but not too 
likely they'll tackle the technical guys on this one.

So, who will?
Cheers,
Ray.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James O'Dell 
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: New BBC IPlayer - can you work out how to use it?


  Hi Ray

  Latest JFW and flash Player don't help things much I'm afraid.  About to try 
SA to Go.  I think it would be perfectly possible for the beeb to do something 
here by building in a "back one minute" and "forward one minute" button into 
the flash content.  The have obviously done something to make buttons such as 
'play', 'pause' and 'restart' accessible since the previous version of the 
IPlayer, these now speak correctly without custom labels in JAWS.  So adding a 
couple of extra buttons would seem to be the way to go, also possibly an edit 
box which would allow you to locate a specific percentage or time position 
within the content.  As it is all we have is a slider control which by 
definition can't be made accessible, at least not within the environment of a 
browser.  For the same reason, i.e. the fact that we are dealing with a web 
browser rather than a standard application, scripting won't help here either.  
Another issue is that, at least with JAWS, you have to keep pressing insert 
+escape to force JAWS to refresh the virtual buffer whenever a page loads and 
then every time you activate one of the flash elements, this updates the 
information and controls that JAWS can see.  So it's not intuitive at all.

  Cheers

  James

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