[access-uk] Re: ITV Player - is it accessible?

  • From: "Andrew Roberts" <andrew.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 17:42:23 +0100

Hi Trace, John and Clive,

 

The ITV Player is partly accessible and partly inaccessible.  

 

With regard to the iPhone app, I'm afraid I have had no success with this at
all.  I can find programmes and double tap on them but they never seem to
play for me.  The other problem is that when I double tap on an episode of a
series like Coronation Street for example, I can't find the earlier
episodes!

 

With regard to using the ITV Player on the PC, Clive, are you using JAWS?
If you are, when you have the page with the video you want to watch in focus
use your JAWS headings quick key to find the "Play Now" heading.  Even
though this is only a heading, press enter on it and for some reason this
does cause the video to play.

 

There is no way of us being able to pause, fast forward, or rewind the video
though.  A sighted person can do these things with the mouse but we can't.
The other thing we can't do is gain access to programmes that have a
guidance rating attached to them, at least not without an aweful lot of
fiddling about.  

 

My partner and I use the ITV Player all the time to catch up on our
favourite programmes and so if there is anything else you want to know about
the ITV Player do please give me a shout.

 

Andrew

 

From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of john coley
Sent: 10 May 2013 20:49
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: ITV Player - is it accessible?

 

Hi Clive, it's inaccessible.

                    John.

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Clive Lever <mailto:clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 8:45 PM

Subject: [access-uk] ITV Player - is it accessible?

 

Hi all,

 

I've just made my first attempt to watch a programme on ITV player. I found
that when I clicked )or rather, pressed enter) on the 'watch button, all id
seemed to do was to reload the page with the link on it. Am I doing
something wrong, or do I need to load all kinds of cookies to get ot
working, or, is it inaccessible. Whichever is the case, the experience is
frustrating in the extreme.

 

Best,

Clive

 

 

 

 

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