Thanks for that, Chris. They used to have it play automatically. I will try this for sure. i also have the PBS IOS app, which shows an accessible play button for each video.
Thanks, teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Oct 16, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Even with click to flash turned off, the video does not autoplay so it's the > way PBS has coded their player. I poked at their page code and they are using > the standard JWPlayer which has a javascript API. So, you can just go to a > video page and then put this in your URL input (command-L to jump there): > > javascript:jwplayer().play() > > That will invoke the play method on the player despite having no controls > accessible on the page. For example, this is the video page for the PBS > superheroes show: > > http://video.pbs.org/video/2365099227/ > > If you go there and then paste in my little javascript trick it should start > playing after a few seconds of buffering and such. Why they don't have a > button on the page to do the same thing is unclear to me. > > CB > > On 10/16/13 12:40 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> Right, I can use some flash elements with ClicktoPlugin. Once you interact >> with these, there are keyboard shortcuts in ClickToPlugin, but it's not >> starting automatically anymore as it used to. There's also a keyboard >> shortcut to allow flash on a particular web domain.. I'm going to maybe >> check the control lists and see if it's there. I am looking forward to HTML >> 5 as a web standard, however. :) >> >> Teresa >> >> "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan >> >> On Oct 16, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The whole video player and controls are written in Flash which is not >>> accessible. Wish sites would stick to using web standards instead of >>> proprietary stuff that breaks the web. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 10/15/13 2:58 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>> Hi, all, >>>> >>>> I used to be able to go to the videos on pbs.org and play them. Now they >>>> don't seem to work. I'm using the ClickToPlugin extension for Safari. >>>> anyone else have this problem? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> teresa >>>> >>>> "we're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan >>>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
