You can try out the HTML5 interface on youtube in Safari. Buttons are
unlabeled but otherwise accessible unlike the flash player. You'll have
to hit youtube.com/html5 and opt-in first. Then it will use the html5
player for video whenever possible.
The JS Flash player, called Gordon, uses SVG so it might just be
shifting the problem to another inaccessible container. That said, at
least the SVG is an open container so somebody else could come along and
add accessibility later.
CB
Chris Hofstader wrote:
Well, that sucks.
I've heard talk about a JavaScript Flash to html 5 convertor but I haven't seen
any actual bits. I know Firefox supports html 5 accessibly on Windows and
GNU/Linux but think it probably does us no good on Macintosh. What about
Safari, how well does it deal with html 5 and VO? Does anyone know where there
is some html 5 content we can test with Safari and VO?
Surely, such a process based in JavaScript would probably be slow but it sure
beats no access at all and, for those of us who enjoy sites like,
www.streaming-madness.net, the extra wait would be well worth not needing to
swap out OS.
cdh
On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I don't know how much access the Flash object gives to external scripts so you
might hit similar roadblocks in Applescript. You can probably get general infor
about the entire flash object (height, width etc) but being able to trigger
internal actionscripts probably requires some glue code inside the flash object.
CB
Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
Yep, there's got to be a callback between js and flash, and i don't know which
part of the api is set to open on a per publication basis.
I'm wondering if there isn't a way to access it differently, as in js firs
extracting the labels, and calling applescript's OSAX which is the extended
suite of commands, which then move the mouse cursor to the label called by js,
then the user clicks. It's a bit GUI scripting, but that method might work
since the mouse cursor can access flash buttons without the use of voice over,
which in this method is just an external call inherent to the system.
I might get my devver to check this out when he's got time. I myself don't have
time right now.
Cheers
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