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

Well, I'm a bit more informed now since reading the Wiki article on Flash, and 
it seems we have a virtual player embeded in a web page.  I don't know but 
maybe for propper access Adobe, and others, including screen reader 
manufacturers, have to get more meaningful access to this thing.

If the BBC can build in more controls that maybe are only there for screen 
readers, then they should do this.

Anyone who knows who we should be speaking to in the Corporation please tell 
us.  Seems the Beeb is slipping in commitment to propper acessability which is 
bad for a public organisation particularly who should be leading the way and 
showing others what can and should be done.

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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