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Making videos functionality accessible by Keyboard(508 Compliance)

 
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Hi Guys,

I need some advice on how to make multimedia 508 compliant.
one of my requirement is to make video player that runs on client browser to be 508 compliant. Its functionality like Pause, Play, forward, backward etc should be accessible by keyboard, very much like the way Youtube has implemented.

I am trying to find the solution for this for quite a while. I came across JW Player that says can be customized. though i am not sure of that.

Can anybody give me advice or pointers to achieve this functionality.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
HHemant.

 
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If you are using the HTML5 <video> tag, this book has an entire chapter on doing just that.
 
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Background: Section 508 is a US Federal Government law about making websites available to people with assorted disabilities. The keyboard use is to help blind or vision impaired or motor impaired users navigate the website.

For motor impaired users, video is fine as long as the mouse isn't required. For blind users, only the audio is available. (and even that assumes the user isn't blind and deaf.) It is likely you will have to provide a textual transcript in addition to the video to meet Section 508 compliance.
 
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