RE: Does the YouTube video player fail SC 2.1.4?

Hi Gerard and everyone else,

> If anyone else has another solution on how to make an embedded YouTube video pass this succes criterium I am very interested to hear.

It may not be an immediate solution, but making Youtube aware of the issue may cause them to add remapping into Youtube itself.
You can send feedback by logging in to youtube, clicking on your profile picture and selecting the ‘send feedback’ option.

Unfortunately the process is not transparent, and somebody with more access might be able to effect change better, but as always, more people reporting an issue increases the chance of the developers looking at it. I’ve already sent in my feedback form!

Regards
Joppe Kroon

From: Gerard Copinga<mailto:gerard@technobility.nl>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 10:31 AM
To: Alastair Campbell<mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>
Cc: W3C WAI ig<mailto:w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Does the YouTube video player fail SC 2.1.4?

Hi Alistair,

However, it is worth checking if the user can turn-off or remap those keyboard short cuts at the YouTube level, which might then apply across embedded players holistically (like caption settings). I haven’t checked, but would be interested to find out.

I have checked this and there is no option or setting when you are in your YouTube channel to either turn the shortcuts of or remap the shortcuts.

The only way to turn them of is by adding a disablekb parameter to the video URI. (see: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#disablekb )

But there is a downside to this method. It also disables the use of non-character keys like the arrowkeys and the spacebar. You can still use the TAB key and spacebar/Enter to navigate and activate all the user interface components, so it is still keyboard accessible. But it does take away some non-character shortcuts as well.

So, as far as I can see, the only way to let an embedded Youtube video pass this succes criterium is by adding the disablekb parameter and set it to 1.

If anyone else has another solution on how to make an embedded YouTube video pass this succes criterium I am very interested to hear.

Kind Regards,

Gerard Copinga
Cardan Technobility