Kevin, Easy part first. While on the Accessible YouTube homepage, press e for edit and you'll land right in the place to enter the information. Press enter. Then press h three or four times to get down to the list of results. Each result is also a header.
I've just been testing the methods I posted. I'm reminded that the function Accessible YouTube makes fairly simple is finding the unmute button. It happens that I was getting no sound out of YouTube today, and pressing spacebar on this button fixed it for both this website and regular YouTube. I realize that doesn't answer your volume question. I tried the alt-p command and arrowing up from there, but today it didn't work. I simply couldn't find any way of raising or lowering volume today. I don't know why access to this control on either YouTube website is so intermittent. I can only report that sometimes I find it, sometimes I don't. It's true that different YouTube clips vary in volume, but sighted users have access to controls to compensate. In my case, I use an external speech synthesizer, so I can control my PC volume independently of JAWS. Without consistently accessible YouTube player controls and an external synthesizer, I imagine this is an annoyance. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] YouTube video volume Adrian when I go to accessible youtube turn off virtual cursor then alt+p then up arrow all jaws announces is blank. also how do you use accessible youtube it doesn't seem to accept search terms even though it has search for and a search button. -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Spratt Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2016 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] YouTube video volume Tim and Kevin, On my system, not only does YouTube volume diminish, sometimes it even goes away completely. It often happens after an MS security update. getting at the volume control on YouTube is tricky, but here are three methods that work with IE11, though inconsistently. 1. The easiest is to change the volume on Accessible YouTube, which seems to carry over to the volume on everyone's YouTube. Go to http://www.povidi.com/yourtube/ Press alt-p for play, t hen up arrow to raise the volume in increments. The other two methods might or might not work on the regular YouTube website: 2. To reach the player and volume controls, turn off the virtual cursor with insert-z, then tab a couple of times . (Thanks to Mario and another lister for this one.) In my case, I had to shift-tab twice. This method did not work the last time I tried. 3. Again insert-z to turn off the virtual cursor, then tab down to "theater mode." Then up arrow like crazy to raise the volume. (this method also didn't work the last time I tried.) I'm sorry that I can't give a definitive answer, but I can confirm that volume is a real problem on YouTube and that player control accessibility is poor. However, one of these methods ought to work. FYI, my system is Win7 64-bit, and I've used these methods with JAWS 16 and 17, and probably also with 15. I can't remember if I tried Firefox. I did try Chrome, but that browser created such havoc on my system, as it does for a lot of people, that I uninstalled it. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Ford Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] YouTube video volume I am using Windows 7, and it has always been this way, a few random videos are much lower volume. Tim Ford -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 9:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] YouTube video volume actually all the videos I view are low, I just view music. when I was using windows 7 the music was fine in volume now I'm using windows 10 and this is the first youtube problem that has occurred. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Ford Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2016 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] YouTube video volume I am no expert, but I was just on YouTube, and as is my usual experience, a few random videos are at a very low volume compared with the others. I do not think you are doing anything wrong, nor can you control the situation; the low volume is in the original recording. If I am wrong, I would love to know that and find a solution! Tim Ford -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2016 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] youtube video volume lately when I view youtube content on internet explorer the volume is low. even if I download them using dvdvideosoft youtube to mp3 converter the downloaded file is still low. the master volume on my computer is at 100 percent and my windows media player volume is at 100 percent what else needs to be at max volume? Email is golden!!! 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