[bcab] Re: BBC iplayer Upgrade to adobe air! Very inaccessible

Hi Mark,

to join, send a blank email to:
uk-radio-listeners-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Then you can ask the questions 
there.  I'll ask who for the name of somebody works on the TV site if you like. 
 You also need to be in touch with Jill Whitehead at RNIB.  Thatn's
jill.whitehead@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Jill works on audio description and other aspects of making TV programme 
content more accessible to blind and partially-sighted people.

Regards,
Clive


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Conquer 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:52 PM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: BBC iplayer Upgrade to adobe air! Very inaccessible


  No I don't mind at all,  In fact I wouldn't mind joining that list as well. 
Is there someone who would work on the TV site as well as I am hearing impaired 
too and I also found out that I tried shift CTRL and c to put subtitles on and 
off on Windows media player and it didn't work for eastenders yesterday. Adobe 
Air and some other stuff that the BBC are doing on adobe is good for people 
like me with some form of sight and fully sighted but blind people would 
struggle with the new way except that they are using a 3rd party program like 
BBC IPlayer for Webbie or on the main BBC Iplayer site but what about those who 
wants to download the program and play it in the next 30 days. I think that 
some people would might like that idea but accessible as possible.

  Mark Conquer


  From: Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:41 PM
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Subject: [bcab] Re: BBC iplayer Upgrade to adobe air! Very inaccessible


  Mark,

  do you mind if I post this one on to the UK-radio-listeners list, as I know 
our membership includes some BBC staff working on IPlayer?

  Thanks,
  Clive




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  From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Mark Conquer
  Sent: 22 April 2009 11:16
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bcab] BBC iplayer Upgrade to adobe air! Very inaccessible


  Hi all

  Just to warn you guys and I don't think anyone have posted this thread about 
Iplayer Download Manager will be switching to adobe air, I will just have to 
say you can either use the Webbie Iplayer feature or if you go to other 
downloads and then use Windows Media player to download the programmes to 
there. I think adobe will need to inform that their adobe air is not accessible 
to screen readers. Hope to hear your views on that matter between the BBC and 
adobe.

  Mark Conquer.

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