Re: ARIA media player design pattern

Hi Steve,

> in the current editors draft of the authoring practices spec [1] the 
> advice on the media player widget is absent any timeline on this being 
> populated?

It's in the pipeline, but I have no fix on when it might be addressed.  
There is an action in tracker to fix a number of problems in the "Design 
Patterns" section, and the media player is one of them.  But there is 
only the beginnings of a proposal there [2]:

> Media player:
> (http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/Overview.html#mediaplayer)
> Problem: blank.
> It's not clear which ARIA states/properties apply, if any. A media
> player is 'playing' or 'paused'; and may have 'volume', 'captions',
> 'described video', 'current time', 'length', and 'chapters' properties.
> It can also include 'fast-forward' or 'rewind" states.
>

The DHTML Style Guide lists keystrokes for a media player [3], and they 
could be copied over to the APG, but I think they are out-of-date.  
IMHO, the style guide keystrokes don't match, for example the YouTube or 
QuickTime players.  For example, the space bar is what is typically used 
for play/pause, not ctrl+alt+p.

Perhaps the best thing to do is raise an issue in tracker.  I've done 
that [4].

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/#mediaplayer
[2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-wai-pf/2012AprJun/0092.html
[3] http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide#mediaplayer
[4] https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/555


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Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:06:11 UTC