Re: Guidelines for controls for HTML5 video players.

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines UAAG 2.0 has a section devoted 
to Media Players. While this is not a REC, this section of UAAG 2.0 has 
been stable for some time. Here is the latest Editor's Draft.  We expect 
the next public working draft to be a Last Call.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2011/ED-UAAG20-20111213/#gl-control-inaccessible-content

The working group would be very interested in your comments on this 
guideline as we have not received much feedback in this area to date.

You may also find useful a report from the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task 
Force that aggregates the requirements of an accessibility user with 
respect to audio and video.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/media-a11y-reqs/

Regards,

jeanne

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Jeanne Spellman
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
jeanne@w3.org


On 12/21/2011 12:01 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
> 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.
>

Received on Thursday, 22 December 2011 14:33:03 UTC