This is a pretty good media player. It supports both closed captions and audio description, is keyboard accessible, has the Flash buttons labeled with meaningful words for the screen reader user, and provides a JavaScipt interface so the web page and communicate with the Flash Player.
It’s free for non-commercial use, but has a fee for commercial use.
- Download and find out more information at: JW Player for Flash and HTML 5
- Learn more about the players accessibility at:Making the player accessible
- Buy at: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
Example 1:
Javascript API into the player:
JW Player Embed Method
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Code
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.donaldevans.com/jwplayer/jwplayer.js"></script> <div id="media_container" tabindex="0">Loading the player ...</div> <script type="text/javascript"> jwplayer("media_container").setup({ flashplayer: "http://www.donaldevans.com/jwplayer/player.swf", wmode: 'window', file: "http://www.donaldevans.com/jwplayer/corrie.flv", allowscriptaccess: "always", seamlesstabbing: "true", image: "http://www.donaldevans.com/jwplayer/corrie.jpg", allowscriptaccess: "always", plugins: { "audiodescription-2": {file: "http://www.donaldevans.com/jwplayer/corrie.mp3", state: "true"}, "captions": { file: "http://www.donaldevans.com/jwplayer/corrie.xml", state: "true" } }, height: "270", width: "480" }); </script>
Works With
| Browser | Screen Reader | Results |
|---|---|---|
| IE 9 | JAWS 12 | Yes |
| FF 5 | JAWS 12 | Yes |
Standards:
- 1.2 Time-based Media: The purpose of this guideline is to provide access to time-based and synchronized media. (Level A) This includes media that is:
- audio-only
- video-only
- audio-video
- audio and/or video combined with interaction
- WCAG 2.0 Technique Flash17: Preventing a keyboard trap in Flash content
