[jawsscripts] Re: jaws and youtube

  • From: Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:38:11 -0400

And that don't have anything to do with the speaker on the youtube site.
Be leave me had a sighted friend look at it and where he told me the 
speaker graphic was, jaws in any mode didn't see it at all, and can 
not react with it.
Would like to see if a mac user can do better.

At 11:26 PM 7/16/2009, you wrote:
>Adobe made a huge leap forward in accessibility last October when they
>released their Creativity Suite 4 (CS4)!  The Flash Professional software,
>which is one piece of CS4, provided a new Flash player and pre built widget
>controls like Play /pause, seek slider, mute, volume slider, full screen and
>more that have accessibility code already included.  YouTube must have been
>working with the beta of CS4 because they updated their site with these
>controls the day CS4 was released!  I heard about the improvements in the
>"Adobe Accessibility" RSS feed.  The page for the October 16 announcement
>page is:
>http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2008/10/our_favorite_cs4_accessibility.html
>
>In the details of this announcement, they claim they worked with the makers
>of Windowize and JAWS while implementing these features.  They also provide
>detailed instructions of how to interact with these new Flash controls for
>both screen readers.  Unfortunately, I could never get JAWS to work with the
>slider controls.  At least part of the problem is to get JAWS into Forms
>Mode on the slider, so the arrow keys can adjust the slider.  JAWS does not
>recognize the slider control,will not automatically enter Forms Mode on the
>slider, and I was not able to easily  force it into Forms Mode.  I did send
>this info to FS during the 10 beta period.  They did not sound interested.
>They seemed to feel that people who use JAWS never use Flash for audio or
>video.
>
>I think Windowize actually works using Adobe's instructions.  Perhaps a
>simple script to can be written to make these controls work would be
>possible?
>
>Don Marang
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:29 AM
>Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws and youtube
>
>
> >I can tell you already michelle,
> > it just mutes the playback. it doesn't allow you to actually change the
> > level though, since the keyboard controls are all designated to do other
> > things, so it appears like it's a mouse only trip, unless you can get to
> > the
> > spot where you can use your jaws mouse movement keys, to drag the slider
> > up/down. as indeed you can do when you route jaws to virtual pc cursor,
> > when
> > over the seek-sliderBar button, which is now also accesible and speaks in
> > youtube, at least with jaws10.1154 it seems to.  you can route jaws to pc
> > ther now, and rewind/fastForward your youTube clip your listening to,
> > simply
> > by altShiftArrowing directly left/right from that position, and clicking
> > there. which is certainly a great advance on what we could do before.
> > But,
> > yep I haven't yet found where in relation to the volume/mute flash button,
> > one must move the mouse to get it on to the volume slider. I will let the
> > list know though when I do find out.
> >
> >
> > geoff c.----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michele Barbi" <barbuz87@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:49 PM
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws and youtube
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> if I can tell you my experience, I recently saw a youtube video and saw a
> >> button called "Volume". I did not click it but if I'll do I'll tell you
> > more
> >> precizely what will happen.
> >> Bye!
> >> Barbuz
> >>
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