Guidelines for controls for HTML5 video players.

I was advised to post this to the html-public-a11y list, but discovered 
that only members of the html-a11y task force can post there.  The 
associated subscription page advises to post to wai-xtech -- so a hearty 
"hello, wai-xtech", and, "season's greetings".

Here is the matter at hand:  My co-workers on the fluid project are 
developing an accessible UI for a video player for HTML5.  They were 
wondering if there are any guidelines for the controls.

To give you an idea of what the issues are:  take for example, the 
"play" button.  What kind of widget should it be?  I've suggested that 
if it is a standard "play/pause" button, then it should be a toggle.  
And, if there is a toggle button in HTML5 (I have yet to check), then to 
use that.  If HTML5 doesn't have that kind of control, then to use an 
aria role of "button" combined with the aria-pressed property.

Anyhow, there are other controls one would like to use:  rewind, fast 
forward, volume, turn captions on/off, and so on.  Is there is a 
document that recommends the kinds of controls to use?

Thanks for any pointers.

-- 
;;;;joseph

'I had some dreams, they were clowns in my coffee. Clowns in my coffee.'
                      - C. Simon (misheard lyric) -

Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:01:57 UTC