- From: Gavin Thomas <Gavin.Thomas@uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:18:56 +0000
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"HTML5 media should be used instead if ordinary markup & CSS are insufficient to the page's purpose That's all well and good if users have a browser that supports html 5 video. When I demoed the vision austrailia embedded example and the icant accessible youtube player ( http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/) to 2 blind students in the university they were amazed they could search and play videos. They said this was a great. -----Original Message----- From: Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@earthlink.net] Sent: 01 March 2012 12:10 To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: youtube accessibility On 2012/03/01 11:48 (GMT) Gavin Thomas composed: > The issue I have with the player is you still cannot gain focus of the > element through the keyboard in some browsers (e.g firefox I've never yet seen a web page using Flash that could be deemed designed for users rather than midget-brained designers. HTML5 media should be used instead if ordinary markup & CSS are insufficient to the page's purpose. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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