Alfonzo Cuellar wrote:
Recently, I was curious as to if voiceOver can interact with Flash Player.
Not directly. See bug report:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-38
However, DHTML controls can be used to send messages to Flash Player
applications over the Flash-JavaScript bridge to control them. For
example, a play link might tell a Flash player video application to
start playing its video. If website developers provide such HTML
controls, you could use those with VoiceOver.
> For example, videos on YouTube. Is there anyway that I could pause,
> fastforward, full screen, and so fourth with the actual videos?
I'm not aware of any DHTML controls for the YouTube player. However,
Google also expose an API for the YouTube player which could be used to
create accessible players. See the player created by Christian Heilmann
for an example:
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/06/12/making-youtube-easier-and-more-accessible/
Yahoo! Video has implemented off-screen DHTML controls for its video
player which can either be tabbed or quickly activated with
accesskey-based shortcuts. I seem to remember some of the accesskey
shortcuts conflict with default shortcut keys for OS X's Spaces feature
however.
Hope that helps.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
